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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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I conclude that your Catholicon may purge your self from all Non-conformity, but it is utterly unprofitable to me: Facile credimus quod volumus. I have had as much reason as you, to be willing to find Conformity lawful, if it be so: I have lost many thousand Pounds more by Non-conformity, than you have got by Conformity. But I have no such Bias on my Will, as should set all my Wit on work to find, or buy a Rope for my Conscience. And I find nothing better that you offer me herein.
I conclude that your Catholicon may purge your self from all Non-conformity, but it is utterly unprofitable to me: Facile credimus quod volumus. I have had as much reason as you, to be willing to find Conformity lawful, if it be so: I have lost many thousand Pounds more by Non-conformity, than you have got by Conformity. But I have no such Byas on my Will, as should set all my Wit on work to find, or buy a Rope for my Conscience. And I find nothing better that you offer me herein.
§ 4. When you have told us, [Where no God-Fathers can be had, we must Christen without;] and such like: You say, [And this is the common sense put upon the Law, by the Law-makers themselves, that is, by the Bishops.]
Ans. What reason did you think we have in such an Historical Assertion, to believe your bare word? In what Synod did they declare it? Why did you neither name the Bishops, nor the Time, or Place, or Witness, by which it might be proved ⟨p. 120⟩the common sense? But could you think this should convince me, that know it to be false?