A26865:731
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.
Perhaps you will say, that it will not unite us with the Papists, nor with any that require more. I answer, We shall be so far united, as that they will approve of all our Religion, though we approve not of all theirs? For they confess the truth of all our Canonical Scriptures; and confess that all things universally necessary to salvation are contained in them (and much more): So Bellarmine, Costerus, and many others, and especially the old Schoolmen freely assert. And it is a great advance to Concord, and to our satisfaction, to have the common concession of all Christians, that our Religion is all true, and nothing of absolute necessity wanting. But I have spoken more to this before; to which I refer you.
2. It would make it as easy for any Protestant to justify all his Religion, as it is to justify the sacred Scriptures, to those that confess them to be true; and so to tell the Papist where our Religion hath been in all ages, and what succession our Church hath had.
2. It would make it as easie for any Protestant to justifie all his Religion, as it is to justifie the sacred Scriptures, to those that confess them to be true; and so to tell the Papist where our Religion hath been in all ages, and what succession our Church hath had.
3 It would take none of your forms or ceremonies, or superadditions, from any that will needs have them: while you make them not the necessary terms of union and communion, he that will may be without them.