A26865:458
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 21
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4. They cannot but know that most of those things which they blame in the people, which are real weaknesses and faults, we tell them of as loud as they do, and as plainly as they, though not so wrathfully or flamingly as they. Mr. Pool's Vox calmentis hath told the silenced Ministers even in Latin in the hearing of the world, of more of their faults, then both these Authors could remember; and not only in my Directions for weak Christians, but in divers other Books, I have dealt as plainly with the people.
4. They cannot but know that most of those things which they blame in the people, which are real weaknesses and faults, we tell them of as loud as they do, and as plainly as they, though not so wrathfully or flamingly as they. Mr. Pool's Vox calmentis hath told the si'enced Ministers even in Latin in the hearing of the world, of more of their faults, then both these Authors could remember; and not only in my Directions for weak Christians, but in divers other Books, I have dealt as plainly with the people.
5. Saving therefore the Debaters civility to my self; I must ask him, whether it savoured of common equity and justice, to make ⟨p. 117⟩the Nonconformist in the general, the author or owner of all those weaknesses, follies, impudences; falsehoods, &c. which he could fasten only on Sectaries, or on the ignoranter sort. And especially when scarcely ever Books were written by any man as against Nonconformists that so little touch upon Nonconformity it self, or any of the points in difference? Is Gersom Bucer, or Altar Damascenum, or Amesius Fresh Suit, or any other of the Nonconformists writings answered there, except a late Nehushtan, that few men own, and he thought he could more easily say somewhat to?
5. Saving therefore the Debaters civility to my self; I must ask him, whether it savoured of common equity and justice, to make ⟨p. 117⟩the Nonconformist in the general, the author or owner of all those weaknesses, follies, impudences; falshoods, &c. which he could fasten only on Sectaries, or on the ignoranter sort. And especially when scarcely ever Books were written by any man as against Nonconformists that so little touch upon Nonconformity it self, or any of the points in difference? Is Gersom Bucer, or Altare Damascenum, or Amesius Fresh Suit, or any other of the Nonconformists writings answered there, except a late Nehushtan, that few men own, and he thought he could more easily say somewhat to?