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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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§ 12. If God's Word were not the sufficient Law by which your Cause and ours are to be tried, I would vie with you against your Plea from Humane Opinion, or Authority: And show you, 1. That the Apostles not using it, will weigh down the Ancients and others using it. 2. That the Ancients used it not so ill as we must do, as a Sacrament of the Covenant; but as a mere professing Sign of their not being ashamed of Christ; till it did degenerate by degrees. 3. That the Learning and Piety of them that have refused it, hath been equal to theirs that so used it. 4. That he that readeth Bernard, Gerson, Kempis, Thauluus, Gerhardus, Zutphaniensis, Sales, and abundance such (yea, Persons of Resolution) will think there have been very holy Papists; and for number they exceed the Protestants: And yet that proveth not Popery to be lawful. 5. That the Baptized's White Garment, Milk and Honey, not kneeling on Lord's Days, &c. were more generally used of old, and yet are not now so well thought of: Nor the giving the Eucharist to Infants, nor the Millenary Doctrine, much the Ancients Language, like the Arians, which P•tavius citeth.
§ 12. If God's Word were not the sufficient Law by which your Cause and ours are to be tryed, I would vie with you against your Plea from Humane Opinion, or Authority: And shew you, 1. That the Apostles not using it, will weigh down the Ancients and others using it. 2. That the Ancients used it not so ill as we must do, as a Sacrament of the Covenant; but as a meer professing Sign of their not being ashamed of Christ; till it did degenerate by degrees. 3. That the Learning and Piety of them that have refused it, hath been equal to theirs that so used it. 4. That he that readeth Bernard, Gerson, Kempis, Thauluus, Gerhardus, Zutphaniensis, Sales, and abundance such (yea, Persons of Resolution) will think there have been very holy Papists; and for number they exceed the Protestants: And yet that proveth not Popery to be lawful. 5. That the Baptized's White Garment, Milk and Hony, not kneeling on Lord's Days, &c. were more generally used of old, and yet are not now so well thought of: Nor the giving the Eucharist to Infants, nor the Millenary Doctrine, much the Ancients Language, like the Arrians, which P•tavius citeth.