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The Case and cure of persons excommunicated according to the present law of England. : In two parts : I. the nature of excommunication, as founded in Holy Writ : the persons intrusted with that power, the objects of that censure and the method prescribed by God for it. The corruptions of it in times of popery, with the acts of the popish clergy, to fortify it with under these corruptions. The several writs of common law, and the statute laws made in those times, and still in force, to restrain the abuse of this censure, and to deliver the subjects from the oppression of it. II. The mischievous consequents of excommunication as the law now stands at present in England. With some friendly advice to persons pursued in inferior ecclesiatical courts by malicious promoters; both in order to their avoiding excommunication, or delivering themselves from prisons, if imprisoned because they have stood excommunicated fourty days

1682

Anon.