A26865:477
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 23
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.
I long ago began a Treatise (which the agitations of my Troublers1 have interrupted) to reconcile the Arminians and Anti-Arminians in these matters, in which I should easily have manifested, how unfit such Subjects were to be so fiercely and implacably contended about. And because I know not whether ever I shall ⟨p. 123⟩live to re▪assume it (being tossed about, and having neither health nor liberty for any settled habitation), I must give the judicious a few hints of the Media of Conciliation which I would have used.
I long ago began a Treatise (which the agitations of my Troublers1 have interrupted) to reconcile the Arminians and Anti-Arminians in these matters, in which I should easily have manifested, how unfit such Subjects were to be so fiercely and implacably contended about. And because I know not whether ever I shall ⟨p. 123⟩live to re▪assume it (being toss'd about, and having neither health nor liberty for any setled habitation), I must give the judicious a few hints of the Media of Conciliation which I would have used.
- 1•y Gods mer•y, since the•riting of this have published it, called catholic The•ogy.•y Gods mer•y, since the•riting of this have publi•hed it, called •atholick The•ogy.