Opinion and Matter of Fact, Or, A Seasonable Caution to the Present Conv------n

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A. Baldwin, 1711 - 35 pages
 

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Page 7 - ... like nature are illegal and pernicious. But we conceive that heretical tenets and opinions may be examined and condemned in convocation authorized by 20 royal license, without convening the authors or maintainers of them.
Page 3 - Address ; and none of them, that we find, making any doubt thereof; and we. observing nothing in those or any other Acts of Parliament that we think has taken it away ; We are humbly of Opinion, that such Jurisdiction, as the Law now stands, may be exercised in Convocation.
Page 10 - ... either party, called doctor Vesey, the dean of his chapel, to him, and commanded him upon his faith and allegiance to declare the truth, according 6. to the best of his knowledge, upon the following question. That is, whether the trying of clerks in criminal causes before temporal judges, is directly contrary to the law of God, and the liberties of holy Church, as the spiritualty pretend. To this, after mature deliberation, doctor Vesey told the king, with all the solemnity required, that the...
Page 7 - ... the default of the diocesan bishops : all which statutes being made for the ease and benefit of the subjects, they cannot (as we humbly conceive) be deprived of the benefit of them by any pretence of jurisdiction in the convocation, from which we cannot find, or be informed of any instance of appeal. Nor have any judicial precedents or authorities for convening or censuring of such offenders in any convocation, since those statutes, or the reformation (which is...
Page 6 - In which statute for citing out of the diocese, and in the others, as far as 20 relates to appeals, for such offences, no notice is taken of the convocation, either as to jurisdiction or appeals. Nor doth it any way appear to us, in whom the pretended judiciary power of a convocation either before or since the said statutes (if any such they ever had) resided ; 2S whether in the whole body of the convocation, or in part.
Page 33 - Portugal, arid efpecially among the trading People, to the great Diminution both of its Stock in Trade, and of the Number of its current and expert Merchants. For tho...
Page 2 - Convocation, as the Law now ftands, may proceed in Examining, Cenfuring, and Condemning fuch Tenets as are declared to be Herefy by the Laws of this Realm, together with the Authors and Maintainers of them, we...
Page 3 - We are humbly of opinion, that such jurisdiction, as the law now stands, may be exercised in convocation. But this being a matter which, upon application for a prohibition, on behalf of the...
Page 34 - Knowledge of it put themselves on board, yet, if they happen to hear Portuguese spoken upon the Deck, or in any of the Cabins, they tremble Hand and Foot, as if the Familiars of the Inquisition were come to carry them away.'1 The second class of proselyte, though not Jewish, was not in the full sense Christian.
Page 6 - Bifhops, and other Ordinaries ; who, we conceive, have the proper Judicature in thofe Cafes ; and from whom and whofe Courts the Parties accufed may have their Appeals ; the la ft Reforc wherein is lodg'd in the Crown.

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