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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 20
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XI. If I upon strong suspicion of gross Ignorance, would desire my neighbours (aged or young) to come and speak with me, and would try them and instruct them; or if I desire to confer with them on a just private suspicion of Heresy or Atheism, or accusation or fame of wicked ⟨p. 64⟩living; and if they refuse to speak with me, or give me any answer or account, but shut their doors against me, and bid me meddle with my own business, I have no power to refuse them the Sacrament.
XI. If I upon strong suspicion of gross Ignorance, would desire my neighbours (aged or young) to come and speak with me, and would try them and instruct them; or if I desire to confer with them on a just private suspicion of Heresie or Atheism, or accusation or fame of wicked ⟨p. 64⟩living; and if they refuse to speak with me, or give me any answer or account, but shut their doors against me, and bid me meddle with my own business, I have no power to refuse them the Sacrament.
XII. I have known many persons, that for fear of being guilty of the body and blood of Christ, would be in danger of desperation or distraction, should they receive it: Yet if, for fear of an Excommunication, such unwilling ones come, I must give it them. And I know too many that let me know, that though they will have the Sacrament, they do not consent to the Essentials of the Sacramental Covenant, but think Christ's terms too hard (till they have sinned longer;) yet these must I admit to the Sacrament.
XIII. On the other side, I must give it none that dare not take it kneeling, nor any that think Conformity unlawful, nor that the Canon calleth Schismatics.