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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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§ 5. But your next is too apt to provoke Laughter, viz. [Suppose you honestly tell the Ordinary, that the uncapable are too many to be presented, lest Violence make them worse, and Excommunicating them signify nothing, but endanger them to rise in Rebellion, or Mutiny, and turn you and us out of Place (that reason is considerable) or quite leave our Assemblies, and turn Quakers, Papists, Infidels, and precipitate Souls to Hell by Obstinacy and Viciousness: But if you will leave it to me, I will Christen their Children and keep them within the Church; (Is that Excommunicating them?) as Hearers, and Learners, and Candidates, &c. Do I not then honestly perform the Law?
§ 5. But your next is too apt to provoke Laughter, viz. [Suppose you honestly tell the Ordinary, that the uncapable are too many to be presented, lest Violence make them worse, and Excommunicating them signifie nothing, but endanger them to rise in Rebellion, or Mutiny, and turn you and us out of Place (that reason is considerable) or quite leave our Assemblies, and turn Quakers, Papists, Infidels, and precipitate Souls to Hell by Obstinacy and Viciousness: But if you will leave it to me, I will Christen their Children and keep them within the Church; (Is that Excommunicating them?) as Hearers, and Learners, and Candidates, &c. Do I not then honestly perform the Law?
Ans. Your honesty I shall commend. And Christ's Law you may much perform. But what Law of the Church is it that you thus perform? What is the Law that giveth you any such power? What Law forbids it you, I have showed. Let the Rejected sue you, and let the Judges tell you, whether you have kept the Law: The issue will answer you better than I can.
Ans. Your honesty I shall commend. And Christ's Law you may much perform. But what Law of the Church is it that you thus perform? What is the Law that giveth you any such power? What Law forbids it you, I have shewed. Let the Rejected sue you, and let the Judges tell you, whether you have kept the Law: The issue will answer you better than I can.