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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 2
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CHAP. II.
§ 1. You begin with Reordination. And, 1st. I told you how the Church in all Ages hath commonly abhorred it: The Canons, called the Apostles, depose both the Ordainer that doth it, and the Ordained. Gregory Magnus, equalleth it with twice Baptism (which perhaps you may think lawful too) you are for it upon reason Toties quoties. You tell us how loth we should be as to Condemn that which so many worthy Men held as were the old Conformists: And may not ⟨p. 7⟩I tell you that you should be more Cautelous how you contradict all Ages of the Church, even to this Day.
§ 1. YOu begin with Reordination. And, 1st. I told you how the Church in all Ages hath commonly abhorred it: The Canons, called the Apostles, depose both the Ordainer that doth it, and the Ordained. Gregory Magnus, equalleth it with twice Baptism (which perhaps you may think lawful too) you are for it upon reason Toties quoties. You tell us how loth we should be as to Condemn that which so many worthy Men held as were the old Conformists: And may not ⟨p. 7⟩I tell you that you should be more Cautelous how you contradict all Ages of the Church, even to this Day.
§ 2. Had you heard as great a Man as I have done, declare that he could not take them for Ministers, or take the Sacrament of them that had not Episcopal Ordination; and had you heard my L. Chancellor Hide give such Reasons openly for Reordination as I did; and had you seen the Writings of so Learned a Bishop as I have seen, to prove such no Ministers as are Ordained but by Presbyters, and heard such Men, and so many Argue for it as I have done, you could not have thought that the judgment of those that impose Reordination, was, or is, that Men are true Ministers of Christ that are Ordained by Presbyters only? So that your sense of the Imposition is feigned.