A26865:371
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.
14. Every man is not a Separatist, that is not present with others in public worship. I separate not from all foreign Churches, nor from all the Parish Churches in London save one, though I be present but with one. But he that censureth a true Church to be no Church, and so separateth from it as none; and he that accounteth any Church injuriously, to be so corrupted as that it is unlawful to hold communion with it, both these are guilty of culpable Schismatical separation, but in very different degrees.
14. Every man is not a Separatist, that is not present with others in publick worship. I separate not from all foreign Churches, nor from all the Parish Churches in London save one, though I be present but with one. But he that censureth a true Church to be no Church, and so separateth from it as none; and he that accounteth any Church injuriously, to be so corrupted as that it is unlawful to hold communion with it, both these are guilty of culpable Schismatical separation, but in very different degrees.
15. A mans absence from you will not alone prove him a Separatist, unless he be absent upon separating Principles.
16. He that keepeth not local communion with a particular Church, and yet honoureth them as a Church that may be communicated with, and holdeth communion of Faith and Love, and Obedience with them, cannot be a Separatist from them simply, but only extrinsically secundum quid; and that is to be tried and judged of as aforesaid.