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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 22
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CHAP. XXII.
YOU speak next of the Surplice; of which I gave you no occasion. But we that know that the true meaning of the Liturgy is, that all must use it that shall be suffered to officiate, 1. Will not believe you, if you tell us the contrary hereafter, and lay it only on the Canon, and think it nothing that you are obliged to consent to, and approve. 2. Nor will I yet believe that you will undertake to justify the ejecting and silencing of all that dare not use the Surplice: Or if you will, you cannot. The 14th and 15th of the Romans cannot be confuted; nor the many proofs that I have given, that it reacheth our case, in my late Book for the Church's Concord. And why talk you of the Surplice, and omit the main Question, Whether we may consent to the Liturgy, Preface and Rubric, which impose it as they do? You durst not consent to silence two thousand, or one that dare not use it.
YOU speak next of the Surplice; of which I gave you no occasion. But we that know that the true meaning of the Liturgy is, that all must use it that shall be suffered to officiate, 1. Will not believe you, if you tell us the contrary hereafter, and lay it only on the Canon, and think it nothing that you are obliged to consent to, and aprove. 2. Nor will I yet believe that you will undertake to justifie the ejecting and silencing of all that dare not use the Surplice: Or if you will, you cannot. The 14th and 15th of the Romans cannot be confuted; nor the many proofs that I have given, that it reacheth our case, in my late Book for the Church's Concord. And why talk you of the Surplice, and omit the main Question, Whether we may consent to the Liturgy, Preface and Rubrick, which impose it as they do? You durst not consent to silence two thousand, or one that dare not use it.