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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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1. That you will publish your Retractation of those words [The words of the Declaration do not say, No Man is bound to endeavour the alteration of the Governors, but only of the Government.]
1. That you will publish your Retractation of those words [The words of the Declaration do not say, No Man is bound to endeavour the alteration of the Governours, but only of the Government.]
Do you consider what you say?
1. You know that it is the Government of the State as well as Church, that is here expressed: And do you think that the King and Parliament never intended to keep Men from deposing the King? Or the Lords, and Commons, and Judges, though they changed not the Species, but set up others in their steads? Or will the Bishops so expound it to you, as that it meaneth not that you are not obliged by the Covenant, to pull down all the present Bishops if you set up others in their stead?
2. That you avoid the commoner answer of others, who say, That it is only the Essentials of Government that are here meant, and not any Integrals, or Accidents. For,