A26865:367
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 11
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
10. That abundance of the Ministers now cast out, were once the lawful Pastors of the flocks.
11. That when the true Pastor is thrust out of the Temples, and Usurpers have that place, he is rather the Separatist that followeth the Usurper in that more public place, than he that adhereth in private to the lawful Pastor; as Dr. VVild and the rest aforementioned then thought.
11. That when the true Pastor is thrust out of the Temples, and Usurpers have that place, he is rather the Separatist that followeth the Usurper in that more publick place, than he that adhereth in private to the lawful Pastor; as Dr. VVild and the rest aforementioned then thought.
12. That therefore in those places where the Relation of prohibited Ministers to the people is truly dissolved, they are the faulty dividers that adhere to them. But where it is not dissolved, but the public Teachers were never their true Pastors, there those may be the Schismatics that forsake their lawful Pastors, though under that restraint.
12. That therefore in those places where the Relation of prohibited Ministers to the people is truly dissolved, they are the faulty dividers that adhere to them. But where it is not dissolved, but the publick Teachers were never their true Pastors, there those may be the Schismaticks that forsake their lawful Pastors, though under that restraint.