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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 28
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Your 5th is more pitiful, being a Game at Equivocation. 1. Did you think that the word [Prelacy] in the Common, or the Imposers sense, ⟨p. 96⟩did mean Pastors that excel in Gifts and Grace. You may next say, it meant Kings, or School-Masters; when yet they adjoined an expository Description. And I have told you, 1. That Doctor Burges, Mr. Gataker, and many more openly declared that they would not Covenant against the Primitive Episcopacy, and were ready to enter their Protestation; and the Assembly to satisfy them, added the Description, as meaning only the English concatenated frame. 2. And the House of Lords took it upon Mr. Coleman's making the same Exposition.
Your 5th is more pitiful, being a Game at Equivocation. 1. Did you think that the word [Prelacy] in the Common, or the Imposers sense, ⟨p. 96⟩did mean Pastors that excel in Gifts and Grace. You may next say, it meant Kings, or School-Masters; when yet they adjoined an expository Description. And I have told you, 1. That Doctor Burges, Mr. Gataker, and many more openly declared that they would not Covenant against the Primitive Episcopacy, and were ready to enter their Protestation; and the Assembly to satisfie them, added the Description, as meaning only the English concatenated frame. 2. And the House of Lords took it upon Mr. Coleman's making the same Exposition.
2. But the Bishops will give you little thanks for subjecting them to all Pastors that have better Gifts and Grace: And they will laugh at you for talking, as if this were the Prelacy in question.
In your 6th you tell us, That Bishops Name and Thing are Scriptural: And yet pag. 6. you say [A Bishop and a Presbyter in the Sense and Language of the Scripture, are the same.] The Reader may think that when you affirm, and when you deny, it is the same. And you ask how they would take an Oath to extirpate Presbyters, and were told, They mean not to extirpate them as Bishops, but as Presbyters.