A26865:547
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
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.
Obj. But why will you not then subscribe and swear in the words of the Law, but in your own?
Ans. To give here the reasons of that, is the unseasonable ⟨p. 141⟩digression before disclaimed. You may as well here call us to dispute over all our differences.
Obj. But here I am charged as an impudent falsifier of History, for saying that the War began between two Parties of Episcopal Conformity; which maketh me pity the World in point of History, when the public affairs of a Kingdom so openly managed shall be in such a manner controverted in the very age when they were done. Divers Lords are yet living who were interested in these matters: and it is unpleasing to give men the Catalogue of great mens Names in a matter which His Majesty hath committed to oblivion: But a breviate of all the necessary proof, I shall draw up in a History by it self.
Obj. But here I am charged as an impudent falsifier of History, for saying that the War began between two Parties of Episcopal Conformity; which maketh me pity the World in point of History, when the publick affairs of a Kingdom so openly managed shall be in such a manner controverted in the very age when they were done. Divers Lords are yet living who were interessed in these matters: and it is unpleasing to give men the Catalogue of great mens Names in a matter which His Majesty hath committed to oblivion: But a breviate of all the necessary proof, I shall draw up in a History by it self.