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The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards.
- William Richards
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history of Lynn. Civil, ecclesiastical, political, commercial, biographical, municipal, and military, from the earliest accounts to the present time / To which is prefixed a copious introductory account of the ancient and modern state of Marshland, Wisbeach, and the Fens. By William Richards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tially, in the words of the historian so often referred to in ihese pages—‘‘Upon Saturday, being the 26th. of Fe- bruary, the said archbishop of Canterbury sate in the bishop's seat of the foresaid church of St. Paul, in Lon- don, and selemnly apparelled in his pontificall attire, sitting with him as his assistauts these reverend fathers and bishops, of London, Lincelne, Hereford, Exeter, Menevensis & Roffensis episcopi,” [i. e. the bishops of St. Davids and Rochester] ‘above mentioned, com- minded and caused the said Sir William Sautre, ap- parelled in priestly vestments, to be brought and ap- peare before him. That done, he declared and ex- Ar? or atheist, he still retains the character; and though not a christiag man, he isstill a christian bishop, priest, or deacon: though he be degraded and excommunicated, he is in respect to the character still the same. Thongh he be cut off from the church, he isstilla minister inthe church, Insucha sitaation, to perform any of the sacred funce before. Thus he may not be within the pale of the church himself, and yet bein the church as a minister of Jesus Christ. He may openly and solemnly blaspheme God, and abjure the faith of Christ; he may- apostatize to Judaism, to Mahometism, to Paganism, he still retains “the characier. He may even become a priest of Jupiter, ora priest ef Baal, and still continye a priest of Jesus Christ. The character say the Schoolmen, is not cancelled even in the damned, but remains “with the wicked to their disgrace and greater confusion ; so that in hell they are the ministers: of Jesus Christ, and messengers of the new covenant!! [see the late Dr. Campbell’s Lectures on Ecclesiastical “History, for a more full and striking view of this subject. ] That our jegislature, in sanctioning the said doctrine, did really mean to go the whole length the Schoolmen did, or adopt all their ideas concerning it, “may, perhaps, admit of some doubt: but after agreeing with them in the main point, it might be thought hardly worth their while to he- sitate about the smaller matters. Be this as it may, the convocation over which archbishop Arundel presided, iv the process againt Sawtre, seem to haye been entirely of a different opinion, both from the *Schoolmen and our said Iste parliament, on‘this notable question of clerical indelibility, ,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29326618_0001_0633.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
