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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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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.
But you say, It is the Intention of the Law that you perform.
Ans. You have proved me also, and all of us, Conformists, before we were aware. The end of the Law is to edify and save Men, and to prefer Mercy before Sacrifice: But all this I do, or endeavour in my Preaching, Dwelling, and Practice: Ergo, I am a Conformist, and perform the Law. But that did not keep me out of the common Gaol, nor save my Library. And must we be punished for Conforming? Break the Law and Canon, and say you did it in Mercy and kept it, and try whether you will pass for a Conformist? Did you not thus keep the end of the Law when you Preached at Warrington? and did your Excommunicators call it Conformity?
Ans. You have proved me also, and all of us, Conformists, before we were aware. The end of the Law is to edifie and save Men, and to prefer Mercy before Sacrifice: But all this I do, or endeavour in my Preaching, Dwelling, and Practice: Ergo, I am a Conformist, and perform the Law. But that did not keep me out of the common Gaol, nor save my Library. And must we be punished for Conforming? Break the Law and Canon, and say you did it in Mercy and kept it, and try whether you will pass for a Conformist? Did you not thus keep the end of the Law when you Preacht at Warrington? and did your Excommunicators call it Conformity?