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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 32
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1. Be offended to find all your Labour proved to be hurtful, and your Reasoning vain; and you will think that the disgracing of them by a just Confutation, falleth on your self.
2. And you will be tempted to turn your thoughts too partially, to justify what once you have so publicly said, and so to run further into the Extreme. But my persuasion of your great sincerity, maketh me hope that you will overcome ⟨p. 125⟩the temptation which you have chosen.
2. And you will be tempted to turn your thoughts too partially, to justifie what once you have so publickly said, and so to run further into the Extream. But my persuasion of your great sincerity, maketh me hope that you will overcome ⟨p. 125⟩the temptation which you have chosen.
I. I thought that the word [Use of all] did much aggravate, and not extenuate the burden of the Declaration, as added to Assent. But to them that thought otherwise, I thought that when both Lords and Commons at a Conference upon Reasons given, had rejected that Exposition which confineth the sense of the words to [Use,] it had been a more satisfactory notice of the Law-givers sense, than either your private Conceit, or any Bishops Exposition could be. But you tell us, That this Conference was no Law, or repeal of the Law.