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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 21
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4. The Sinner hath power to forbid you private Admonition by refusing to speak with you, or come near you.
5. What is Family Power to the Church? We thank you for nothing. But were not Parents formerly disabled from keeping Children and Servants from spending much of the Lord's Day in Dancing? &c. And doth not the Canon yet disable them from bringing them to hear a Sermon at the next Parish Church, when they have none at Home?
6. The Lawyers that I speak with, take all for mere Falsehood that you say of the Priests power, of public admonition of sinners by name, not censured by the Ordinary. You say, Where is it forbidden? I ask you, Where is the Priest authorized to do it? If not, the Man will have his Action against him, and Ruin him; and the Bishop may suspend him for Usurpation. And, 2. Of all the worthy Parish Incumbents in London, who did you ever hear once do it? I never one heard one do it, nor heard of one that did it in my life, except a Non-conformist, or a hot Parson point at a Puritan in the Church for some Non-conformity in a Circumstance. Reverse then your charge of Hypocrisy, if you find it must fall on all the worthy London Incumbents: For they all speak for Discipline, though not for more.
6. The Lawyers that I speak with, take all for meer Falshood that you say of the Priests power, of publick admonition of sinners by name, not censured by the Ordinary. You say, Where is it forbidden? I ask you, Where is the Priest authorized to do it? If not, the Man will have his Action against him, and Ruine him; and the Bishop may suspend him for Usurpation. And, 2. Of all the worthy Parish Incumbents in London, who did you ever hear once do it? I never one heard one do it, nor heard of one that did it in my life, except a Non-conformist, or a hot Parson point at a Puritan in the Church for some Non-conformity in a Circumstance. Reverse then your charge of Hypocrisie, if you find it must fall on all the worthy London Incumbents: For they all speak for Discipline, though not for more.