A26865:608
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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Obj. But it seemeth by your words that some such there are among you, and it is not Baxter himself that he accuseth.
Ans. 1. Yes; for his application followeth [Ex ore tuo], which properly should mean that he condemns himself. 2. But suppose it otherwise; Know, Reader, that the person against whom that Book was written, was Mr. Edward Bagshaw, an Anabaptist, Fifth Monarchy man, and a Separatist, and a man of an extraordinary vehement spirit, who had been exasperated by many years hard and grievous imprisonment; and that it was such as he that were described; and that the Nonconformists of England were so far from being of his mind and spirit, that when Baxter had written three Books against him, and such as he, even as Separatists (without ⟨p. 163⟩meddling with him as an Anabaptist, or a Millenary), no one Minister of England wrote in his Defence, nor, that ever his Confuter heard of, pleaded for him. And did we ever dream that no Sectary is moved by Pride to Nonconformity? Do we justify the secret thoughts of all Nonconformists, whom we know not? Or is it a proof that Pride chiefly moveth the Nonconformists, because they call out to Sectaries to take heed, lest it be so with them.
Ans. 1. Yes; for his application followeth [Ex ore tuo], which properly should mean that he condemns himself. 2. But suppose it otherwise; Know, Reader, that the person against whom that Book was written, was Mr. Edward Bagshaw, an Anabaptist, Fifth Monarchy man, and a Separatist, and a man of an extraordinary vehement spirit, who had been exasperated by many years hard and grievous imprisonment; and that it was such as he that were described; and that the Nonconformists of England were so far from being of his mind and spirit, that when Baxter had written three Books against him, and such as he, even as Separatists (without ⟨p. 163⟩medling with him as an Anabaptist, or a Millenary), no one Minister of England wrote in his Defence, nor, that ever his Confuter heard of, pleaded for him. And did we ever dream that no Sectary is moved by Pride to Nonconformity? Do we justifie the secret thoughts of all Nonconformists, whom we know not? Or is it a proof that Pride chiefly moveth the Nonconformists, because they call out to Sectaries to take heed, lest it be so with them.