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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. [All Scripture, or Writing, is not God's Word, but the sacred Bible is:] Or [It is not God's Eternal Coessential Word, which is Christ;] were it not for Scandal, this might be said as true. And some think the Scandal is sufficiently avoided, if you give in your sense in Writing, and make ⟨p. 129⟩it as public as is your Subscription. But I think that the very subscribing such scandalous Words, will scandalously harden others, and encourage Tyrannical Imposers more, than your Exposition can Cure; and therefore I would not use them.
1. [All Scripture, or Writing, is not God's Word, but the sacred Bible is:] Or [It is not God's Eternal Coessential Word, which is Christ;] were it not for Scandal, this might be said as true. And some think the Scandal is sufficiently avoided, if you give in your sense in Writing, and make ⟨p. 129⟩it as publick as is your Subscription. But I think that the very subscribing such scandalous Words, will scandalously harden others, and encourage Tyrannical Imposers more, than your Exposition can Cure; and therefore I would not use them.
And if I would, I could cast in such an Expository Writing, whether the Bishop will or not.
And if he accept it, I pray better understand that, This is not Conformity, but Indulgence, Connivance, Toleration, or Prevarication: You might as well say, He Conformed, that by the King's Indulgence, was excused from Subscribing and Declaring.