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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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§ 9. As to my Simile, That Baptism is Christ's Badge or Colours; it illustrates in the point of similitude: And so it doth, that the King would take it ill to have a public badge of the Order of the Garter to be added to his Star by a private Subject, much more for any to make a Law for all his Subjects, to be known by a badge of private invention.
§ 9. As to my Simile, That Baptism is Christ's Badge or Colours; it illustrates in the point of similitude: And so it doth, that the King would take it ill to have a publick badge of the Order of the Garter to be added to his Star by a private Subject, much more for any to make a Law for all his Subjects, to be known by a badge of private invention.
You say, That it's lawful to wear those Colours in the Troop, which he may wear out. Ans. Yes, if he may wear them out in specie to the same use and ends. But if you at a Funeral wear a black Ribbon, and your General's Colours be white; and some Soldiers will make a Law, That the badge of all the Soldiers shall be black Ribbons, joined to the white, it would not then be lawful for you in or out of the Troop to wear that black as the badge of a Soldier, much less to declare that you approved of, and consented to the imposition. And when you tell me, I allow the use of it, I tell you, I allow not your use prescribed by the Church.
You say, That it's lawful to wear those Colours in the Troop, which he may wear out. Ans. Yes, if he may wear them out in specie to the same use and ends. But if you at a Funeral wear a black Ribbon, and your General's Colours be white; and some Souldiers will make a Law, That the badge of all the Souldiers shall be black Ribbons, joyned to the white, it would not then be lawful for you in or out of the Troop to wear that black as the badge of a Souldier, much less to declare that you approved of, and consented to the imposition. And when you tell me, I allow the use of it, I tell you, I allow not your use prescribed by the Church.