A26865:222
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II.…
An apology for the nonconformists ministry containing I. the reasons of their preaching, II. an answer to the accusations urged as reasons for the silencing of about 2000 by Bishop Morley ..., III. reasons proving it the duty and interest of the bishops and conformists to endeavour earnestly their restoration : with a postscript upon oral debates with Mr. H. Dodwell, against his reasons for their silence ... : written in 1668 and 1669, for the most of it, and now published as an addition to the defence against Dr. Stillingfleet, and as an account to the silencers of the reasons of our practice / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst and D. Newman, 1681
AN APOLOGY FOR THE SILENCED MINISTERS, Especially for their not cea… › Part › Objection 4
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1. This week I spake with a very learned, worthy, silenced Minister, who dwelleth in a great Market-Town in the West, who telleth me, of a multitude there that have been formerly otherwise minded, there is scarce two or three that now go not with him to the public Parish-Worship.
1. This week I spake with a very learned, worthy, silenced Minister, who dwelleth in a great Market-Town in the West, who telleth me, of a multitude there that have been formerly otherwise minded, there is scarce two or three that now go not with him to the publick Parish-Worship.
When I was in Kidderminster I could have been more confident of the ruling of that people in equal ways; but since I came away, my silencing hath so disaffected them to the Bishops, more than I then left them, that multitudes will not communicate in the Sacrament in public: I cannot come at them, nor I do not write to them, lest I offend those that think I do but seduce them. But those ⟨p. 66⟩that call on me, say, We cannot embody our selves in Church-communion with such persecutors. Especially since several of them have lain in the Goal; but before, they had no such argument to plead. Yet do I usually satisfy those that speak to me here in their travels. But that is but a few. But yet I hear not of four men and women in the Town that do not come to the public Assembly.
When I was in Kiderminster I could have been more confident of the ruling of that people in equal ways; but since I came away, my silencing hath so disaffected them to the Bishops, more than I then left them, that multitudes will not communicate in the Sacrament in publick: I cannot come at them, nor I do not write to them, lest I offend those that think I do but seduce them. But those ⟨p. 66⟩that call on me, say, VVe cannot embody our selves in Church-communion with such persecutors. Especially since several of them have lain in the Goal; but before, they had no such argument to plead. Yet do I usually satisfie those that speak to me here in their travels. But that is but a few. But yet I hear not of four men and women in the Town that do not come to the publick Assembly.