THE

WHOLE WORKS

OF

THE RIGHT REV. JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.

LORD BISHOP of down, CONNOR, AND DROMORE:

WITH

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF HIS WRITINGS,

BY

REGINALD HEBER, A.M.

CANON OF ST. ASAPH, Rector of hoDNET, AND LATE FELLOW
OF ALL SOULS' COLLEGE, Oxford.

IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES.

VOL. XIV.

LONDON:

OGLE, DUNCAN, AND CO. 37, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 295, HOLBORN;

AND RICHARD PRIESTLEY, 143, HIGH HOLBORN;

J. PARKER, OXFORD; AND DEIGHTON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

1822.

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THE

WHOLE WORKS

OF THE

RIGHT REV. JEREMY TAYLOR, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF DOWN, CONNOR, AND DROMORE.

VOLUME XIV.

CONTAINING

THE CONCLUSION OF THE RULE OF CONSCIENCE; THE DIVINE INSTITUTION AND NECESSITY OF THE OFFICE MINISTERIAL; AND,

RULES AND ADVICES TO THE CLERGY.

CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTEENTH VOLUME.

THE RULE OF CONSCIENCE.

BOOK III.-CHAP. IV.

CONTINUED.

OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN CANONS AND CENSURES, WITH

THEIR OBLIGATIONS AND POWERS OVER THE CONSCIENCE.

RULE IX.

Excommunication, inflicted upon a light Cause, binds externally, but

not internally; but if it be inflicted upon an unjust Cause, it binds

not at all.

RULE X.

It is not lawful to communicate with those, whom the Church hath,

by a just Sentence, excommunicated

Of Canons ecclesiastical

SECTION III.

RULE XI.

The Canons of the Apostles, which are of Order and external Govern-

ment, do oblige the Conscience by being accepted in several

Churches, not by their first Establishment

RULE XII.

All those Rituals, which were taught to the Church by the Apostles

concerning Ministries, which were of divine Institution, do oblige

all Christendom to their Observation

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