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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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Ans. As Mr. Field, Mr. Thompson, and others that died in Gaol were; or as Mr. Hughs, Mr. Joseph Allen, and others that died by their Prison-Diseases were; or as those that must be Silenced, or lie in Gaol six Months, and pay forty pound a Sermon; or as Men Excommunicated ipso facto are protected.
Ans. As Mr. Field, Mr. Thompson, and others that died in Gaol were; or as Mr. Hughs, Mr. Ioseph Allen, and others that died by their Prison-Diseases were; or as those that must be Silenced, or lie in Gaol six Months, and pay forty pound a Sermon; or as Men Excommunicated ipso facto are protected.
§ 3. You say, [The words of the Declaration do not say, No Man is bound to endeavour the alteration of the Governors but the Government, that is, Of the Laws, Rules, and Canons, by which they govern, and the several Offices which be in the Church.—These may be good.— The office may be Divine, or justly prudential, or tolerably lawful.—Suppose the Oath and Covenant doth not bind to endeavour the alteration of the Chancellor's Office.— Your Conclusion seems implied in your Challenge. [Now let any Nonconformist prove that there is any Office in the English way of Church Government simply unlawful, &c.]
§ 3. You say, [The words of the Declaration do not say, No Man is bound to endeavour the alteration of the Governours but the Government, that is, Of the Laws, Rules, and Canons, by which they govern, and the several Offices which be in the Church.—These may be good.— The office may be Divine, or justly prudential, or tolerably lawful.—Suppose the Oath and Covenant doth not bind to endeavour the alteration of the Chancellor's Office.— Your Conclusion seems implied in your Challenge. [Now let any Nonconformist prove that there is any Office in the English way of Church Government simply unlawful, &c.]