Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.
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Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto.
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[Amsterdam] :: Printed [at the Cloppenburg Press?],
anno Dom. 1640.
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Church of England. -- Thirty-nine Articles -- Controversial literature.
Canon law -- Early works to 1800.
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"Englands complaint to Iesus Christ, against the bishops canons of the late sinfull synod, a seditious conuenticle, a packe of hypocrites, a sworne confederacy, a traiterous conspiracy ... In this complaint are specified those impieties and insolencies, which are most notorious, scattered through the canons and constitutions of the said sinfull synod. And confuted by arguments annexed hereunto." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00011.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.
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The Fifth Canon: Against Sectaries.
In this Canon they name Seperatists, whom especially they
meane, as indeavouring (as they say) the subversion of the Doctrine
and Discipline of the Church of England: on these they lay load in
good earnest indeed, and on all those, that shall print or publish
Bookes especially against the Discipline and Government of the
Church of England. This is indeed their faire Goddesse Diana, of
which these Craftsmen, who get their great Incomes by her, are
so jealous, and doe so furiously thunder against the opposites.
And surely, ô Lord, if thou dost not at this time helpe, they poore
people, who cannot with a good Conscience (if but rightly infor∣med)
hold communion with these men in their Discipline and
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under their Government, must needs goe to wracke, and be ut∣terly
spoyled they and theirs.
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