A26865:373
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
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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.
17. If therefore they will admit you to communicate with them in their way, and will not communicate with you in your way; it showeth that it is something in your way and not directly in your selves, from which they separate.
17. If therefore they will admit you to communicate with them in their way, and will not communicate with you in your way; it sheweth that it is something in your way and not directly in your selves, from which they separate.
18. And no man ought to commit one sin for the communion of any Church.
19. I may have more mental communion with a Church, which I dare not outwardly join with, because they impose some one unlawful word or action, than with a more corrupted Church, with which I hold more external communion, because they put me not to approve their errors.