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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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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⟩that say, they are bound by the Covenant to turn our Diocesan Bishops into Parochial ones, or into one in every Corporation, and to take down their Court Officers, and their Lordships, Parliament, Power and Wealth. That which serveth Men best in Arguing, will not best please the Men that they plead for.
2. And I doubt the Bishops will be angry with you and call you Schismaticks, if you say that the Parliament here meant not to contradict them ⟨p. 107⟩that say, they are bound by the Covenant to turn our Diocesan Bishops into Parochial ones, or into one in every Corporation, and to take down their Court Officers, and their Lordships, Parliament, Power and Wealth. That which serveth Men best in Arguing, will not best please the Men that they plead for.
You say, [We grant that there is no one thing in the Episcopal Government, but what we may well bear with, and submit to.]
Ans. 1. We well may and must bear with that which we cannot help. In Muscovy we may fear that all Preaching is put down, saving reading Homilies; and a Man may there live Godly: But do not you therefore tell all Men, that if the same were done here, we may enter into a solemn Covenant, never to endeavour to reform it: No, were it but the high places in Judea.
Ans. 1. We well may and must bear with that which we cannot help. In Moscovy we may fear that all Preaching is put down, saving reading Homilies; and a Man may there live Godly: But do not you therefore tell all Men, that if the same were done here, we may enter into a solemn Covenant, never to endeavour to reform it: No, were it but the high places in Iudaea.