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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 30
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CHAP. XXX.
§ 1. Your 29th Section containeth your unproved Opinions, and false Devices, for stretching Subscriptions, Covenants and Professions. And first you tell us of the difficulty of using any words that may not seem doubtful: But yet if there be not a satisfactory intelligibleness in words, Humane Converse is overthrown, and Oaths of Allegiance, and all Contracts are of little use unto their ends.
§ 1. YOur 29th Section containeth your unproved Opinions, and false Devices, for stretching Subscriptions, Covenants and Professions. And first you tell us of the difficulty of using any words that may not seem doubtful: But yet if there be not a satisfactory intelligibleness in words, Humane Converse is overthrown, and Oaths of Allegiance, and all Contracts are of little use unto their ends.
§ 2. You say, [Though there be in this Volume which we call the Common-prayer-Book, many Matters, Sentences, and Words bound all ⟨p. 113⟩together, yet do we Assent and Consent to no more but that which goes under the name of the Service of the Church, and the Rules and Orders touching the same, and the Rites and Ceremonies thereof.