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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 18
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§ 6. You say, [We must reduce what is said in the Canon to the words in the 39 Articles, and the Liturgy, for they contradict not themselves.]
Ans. There is no show of contradiction. If the Church in three Books express her sense, must I not set all together, and take them in all? And when the Liturgy purposely referreth the unsatisfied to the Canon for her sense and reason, it's an odd way of expounding it, to forsake the Canons Exposition, and say, I reduce it to the Liturgy. Doubtless all three together express their sense.
Ans. There is no shew of contradiction. If the Church in three Books express her sense, must I not set all together, and take them in all? And when the Liturgy purposely referreth the unsatisfied to the Canon for her sense and reason, it's an odd way of expounding it, to forsake the Canons Exposition, and say, I reduce it to the Liturgy. Doubtless all three together express their sense.
§ 7. The second Commandment forbade not all private use of Images, either a Civil, or mere Memorative or Monitory private (yea, or public) use. As it forbade not Jacob to pitch a stone of remembrance, or the Israelites to make a Memorative and Monitory Altar, and yet forbade such an Altar for Worship to be erected without God's Order. But it was external symbolizing with Idolaters by Images, which the second Commandment forbade; that is, either worshipping them, or God by them; or by setting them up in the place of Worship, seeming so to do. So it is not all use of a Cross that breaketh the second Commandment. When you have proved lifting up the hand, or laying it on the Book, &c. to be Sacraments, I shall further answer you: Or if the second Commandment oblige us not to use Christ's Sacraments (as it is now one of Christ's Commandments) then I shall confess that it forbiddeth not us to devise the like.