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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 24
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CHAP. XXIV.
§ 1. The next Section is about our Assenting to, Consenting to, and approving the many Disorders and Defects in the Liturgy. You confess there are such, and name many of them. And the sum of your Answer is, That you Assent and Consent to use the forms though disordered and defective, and the Assent and Consent is no otherwise to be understood.
§ 1. THe next Section is about our Assenting to, Consenting to, and approving the many Disorders and Defects in the Liturgy. You confess there are such, and name many of them. And the sum of your Answer is, That you Assent and Consent to use the formes though disordered and defective, and the Assent and Consent is no otherwise to be understood.
Ans. Soon said, but where's the proof? 1. The ⟨p. 83⟩words are, All things contained in, and prescribed by the Book. Is the mode and disorder none of the [All?] If I should say, I Approve, Assent, and Consent to something but not all; or the Matter, but not the Order and Manner, doth this answer the common sense of the universal words? What if the Book did say the Lord's Prayer, or Ten Commandments backward, or Baptized in the Name of the Holy Ghost, the Son, and the Father, or began as it ends, &c. may I declare that I Consent to, and approve all things contained in it, and prescribed by it?