A26865:602
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 › Accusation 31
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6. What scorn or derision does Bishop Reignolds now undergo, or many of your Doctors, who some were, and some reputed formerly of our mind?
7. What scorn would it have been to Baxter, who had written two years before the change, for moderate Episcopacy and Liturgies, and whose Books was pleaded and produced at the great meeting at Worcester-house, before the King and Lords, and Bishops, and Nonconformists, with these words of the now Bishop of Winchester, No man hath written better of these things than Mr. Baxter. Who answered, That he stood to all that he had there written. And why doth he now suffer so much obloquy and displeasure from the separating part of the Nonconformists, if it be reputation that he stuck upon? Why do your party tell him that he is more calumniated by the Nonconformists, than by any others? Why hath he lost the esteem of so many (as he had once almost done of his own quondam flock) for persuading them from going too far in heart and practice from the Bishops (when it was their silencing Himself and such others that was the thing which turned his old hearers hearts against them).
7. What scorn would it have been to Baxter, who had written two years before the change, for moderate Episcopacy and Liturgies, and whose Books was pleaded and produced at the great meeting at Worcester-house, before the King and Lords, and Bishops, and Nonconformists, with these words of the now Bishop of Winchester, No man hath written better of these things than Mr. Baxter. Who answered, That he stood to all that he had there written. And why doth he now suffer so much obloquy and displeasure from the separating part of the Nonconformists, if it be reputation that he stuck upon? Why do your party tell him that he is more calumniated by the Nonconformists, than by any others? Why hath he lost the esteem of so many (as he had once almost done of his own quondam flock) for perswading them from going too far in heart and practice from the Bishops (when it was their silencing Himself and such others that was the thing which turned his old hearers hearts against them).