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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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You equivocate when you say, All sides are for Bishops: You will have few assenters when you say, That Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independency, are not three forms of Church-Government, as three is contrary to Unity (viz. of such Form: And when you say, Extirpate one ⟨p. 98⟩and extirpate all (the Forms) because Godliness is the same in all. Are not Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy, three Forms, contrary to unity of Form; though Humanity, Piety, and Regiment, be the same in all? Do they that extirpate Presbytery, or Democracy, extirpate all? But why should I trouble the Reader, or you, by any further opening of your mistakes in a Case that I am not concerned in, and is none of our Controversy?
You equivocate when you say, All sides are for Bishops: You will have few assenters when you say, That Episcopacy, Presbytery, and Independancy, are not three forms of Church-Government, as three is contrary to Unity (viz. of such Form: And when you say, Extirpate one ⟨p. 98⟩and extirpate all (the Forms) because Godliness is the same in all. Are not Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy, three Forms, contrary to unity of Form; though Humanity, Piety, and Regiment, be the same in all? Do they that extirpate Presbytery, or Democracy, extirpate all? But why should I trouble the Reader, or you, by any further opening of your mistakes in a Case that I am not concerned in, and is none of our Controversy?
When you say that [The generality of the Non-conformists are for a well tempered Prelacy,] you infer an odious guilt on those Prelatists, who write vehemently for our Ruin; as intolerable because we are against Episcopacy: I could name you many such besides Dr. Saywel.
When you say that [The generality of the Non-conformists are for a well tempered Prelacy,] you infer an odious guilt on those Prelatists, who write vehemently for our Ruine; as intolerable because we are against Episcopacy: I could name you many such besides Dr. Saywel.