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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 say truly, [An Oath is a sacred thing, and it is dangerous to use Shifts and Stretches.] And if so, it is not without danger to persuade thousands so to do, or to justify many hundred thousand if they will be down-right perjured.
You say truly, [An Oath is a sacred thing, and it is dangerous to use Shifts and Stretches.] And if so, it is not without danger to persuade thousands so to do, or to justifie many hundred thousand if they will be down-right perjured.
You say, [If one may judge of those Times by these now present, a great many swore Pell-mell they knew not what, because they knew not what Presbytery, Independency, and Episcopacy was.]
You say, [If one may judge of those Times by these now present, a great many swore Pell-mell they knew not what, because they knew not what Presbytery, Independancy, and Episcopacy was.]
1. No doubt many did so.
2. But they partly knew what the English Prelacy was, by long Experience; and they swore not for Presbytery or Independency, nor against all Episcopacy.