The cleere sense: or, a just vindication of the late ordinance of Parliament; forbidding persons not ordained, or not allowed of, as intending the ministry, to preach, from such malignant interpretations as some ill-affected labour to fasten on it, thereby to authorize their opposition against those other most warrantable duties of expounding Scriptures, mutuall edification, &c. which the Scriptures do require of every Christian within his own sphear and relations. Which may also serve for an usefull caution to those gentlemen of the magistracy, souldiery & committees in the severall towns, garrisons, places of strength, cities, counties, througout the kingdome, to whom the said ordinance is respectively recommended by both Houses of Parliament. Published according to order.
England and Wales.Parliament.Miscellaneous Documents. 1645-04-26.
London : printed by M. Simmons,
1645.
Includes the ordinance, dated 26 April 1645.
Running title reads: The cleere sense of the late ordinance, forbidding persons not ordained, &c. to preach.
Page 1, line 21 ends "llest". Variant: p. 1 line 21 ends "recommended".
Wing (2nd ed., 1994),
Thomason,
ESTC
Clergy
Preaching