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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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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.
You say, I can never prove that Christ forbade it: And yet you say before that, It's traitorous to have made a Sacrament (without Christ.)
You say, I can never prove that Christ forbad it: And yet you say before that, It's traiterous to have made a Sacrament (without Christ.)
But you affirm, That it's made but for the same use in Baptism, which I allow out. But why did you not give some answer to my express proof of the contrary? Or why put you me so oft to repeat it? It is an outward visible sign, by which in the solemnizing of the Covenant between Christ and us, the person is dedicated to God, by receiving the said sign of the Grace of the Covenant, and the obligation of the Covenant, and of the persons professed consent and engagement to the duties of it.