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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 27
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CHAP. XXVII.
About declaring it unlawful, on any pretence whatsoever, to take Arms by the King's Authority against any Commissioned by him.
ABout declaring it unlawful, on any pretence whatsoever, to take Arms by the King's Authority against any Commissioned by him.
§ 1. Here you will prove (in your proving way) that it meaneth only [against such as be justly and legally commissioned in the due pursuance of their Commission.] Before I answer you, I will give you my reasons for the contrary.
1. The Act of Militia seemeth to me to give another sense of the whole matter: Read it and judge.
2. This Subscription, and other like Professions, were purposely imposed for the renunciation of the late Parliament Arms. But in your sense what will it have done to satisfy or oblige any man in that or the like case, when they profest the same thing, and said, that it was only unjust and unlawful Commissions, and an unlawful pursuit that they resisted? Be their words true or false, this was their pretence, and they would in the heat of the War have subscribed to what you say.