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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. 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,
1. The King and State-Government is here touched. And dare you say that [If any Man think that the Covenant bindeth him to destroy all the King's Civil Government, except the bare essentials of Monarchy, that the Parliament intended not here to contradict him?]
2. And I doubt the Bishops will be angry with you and call you Schismatics, if you say that the Parliament here meant not to contradict them ⟨p. 107⟩