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               Kentish Ministers
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                    <name>Sebastiaan Verweij</name>
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                    <name>Victoria Anker</name>
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                <publisher>Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (MPESE)</publisher>
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            Other Quæries about the same new Oath <lb/>
            Supposed to be from <ex>th</ex>e Kentish ministers./
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            Qr Whether it be lawfull to take an oath w<ex>i</ex>th &amp;c, where <lb/>
            ther may bee a doubt of how much is thereby signified?
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               2:
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            Whether to affirme in an oath that such a thing ought by <lb/>
            right so to stand doth not suppose it to be divine right?
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            Whether it be lawfull <add place="above">to</add> sweare the perpetuall maintaining of <lb/>
            any ordinance meerely Eccl<ex>esiast</ex>i<ex>c</ex>all?
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            Whether the superiority of Archb<ex>isho</ex>ps aboue B<ex>isho</ex>ps, and the <lb/>
            substitution of Deanes, and Arch Deacons &amp;c be not meerly <del rend="strikethrough">Eccl</del> <lb/>
            Eccl<ex>esiast</ex>i<ex>c</ex>all?
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            Whether Divine Authority onely ordaining B<ex>isho</ex>ps to be Church <lb/>
            Governours, perticularly in point of Excom<ex>municati</ex>on it be lawfull to con-<lb break="no"/>
            sent any more to any other Governo<ex>u</ex>rs Eccleciasticall to exercise <lb/>
            the same authority of Excom<ex>municati</ex>on?
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            Whether since the Church of England rejects <ex>th</ex>e lay Elders of <lb/>
            other Churches it doeth not thereby condemne giving any power <lb/>
            to chancellours Comissarys, and officialls who are meerly lay men to <lb/>
            medle in Excommunication even jointly with ministers much lesse as chife <lb/>
            the Surrogates being but their deputies and assistants.
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            Whether any scripture doth authorize such power given to a very lay <lb/>
            man
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            Whether having sworne to <ex>th</ex>e Kings supreamacy in all causes Eccle-<lb break="no"/>
            siaticall it be not a violation of <ex>th</ex>e oath, or at least a hazzard of it in <lb/>
            time to come to sweare not to giue consent to such an alteration in goverm<ex>en</ex>t <lb/>
            as may at least possibly be thought fitt and even commanded with all <lb/>
            authority by <ex>th</ex>e Kinge, or any successor of his heereafter
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            Whether experience shewing that <ex>th</ex>e goverm<ex>en</ex>t of Chancellours &amp;c <lb/>
            hath not advantaged <ex>th</ex>e Kingdome of Christ, nor religion and piety <lb/>
            nor suppressed vice, but rather <ex>th</ex>e contrary? whether it be law-<lb break="no"/>
            full to consent actually to thir continuance, and much lesse to sweare <lb/>
            their perpetuall continuance?
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