A26865:348
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 10
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27. They were the very leaders of all the malignant party that hated Christ and his Disciples, and more zealous against them than the very Heathen Roman Governors, who sometime saved the Preachers from the Pharisees rage.
27. They were the very leaders of all the malignant party that hated Christ and his Disciples, and more zealous against them than the very Heathen Roman Governours, who sometime saved the Preachers from the Pharisees rage.
28. They were so malignant that they envied the very good works, and healing miracles which Christ did, and repined and fretted that God should so much honour Christians, Joh. 11. 47.
29. They were so malignant that no course of the Servants of God could please them, or escape their obloquy. But John that lived austerely, they reproached as a melancholy Demoniac, or a cracked-brained man; and Christ that used a freer converse, they accused as not strict enough for them.
29. They were so malignant that no course of the Servants of God could please them, or escape their obloquy. But John that lived austerely, they reproached as a melancholy Demoniack, or a crackt-brain'd man; and Christ that used a freer converse, they accused as not strict enough for them.