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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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VIII. People commonly think that Preachers should be so much more holy than they, that if they come but near us they are safe. And therefore if we stretch Oaths and Covenants, they may do that, and such as they count lesser Sins than Perjury; and so we may harden them to Damnation.
IX. It is a heinous aggravation of Sin to do it as for God, and that we may serve him in the Ministry.
X. It is a dreadful thing to undertake to justify thousands whom we never knew, as well as the old Parliament Men whom we know, and to prove that they ought not to Repent, nor to endeavour Church Reformation, if it should prove that by a Vow they are bound to such endeavour by lawful means.
X. It is a dreadful thing to undertake to justifie thousands whom we never knew, as well as the old Parliament Men whom we know, and to prove that they ought not to Repent, nor to endeavour Church Reformation, if it should prove that by a Vow they are bound to such endeavour by lawful means.
XI. I dare not provoke God to desert me in my Ministry, (yea, and in my secret Comforts) nor tempt Men to think basely of the Ministers as a Perjured sort of Men, who cry down other Mens Sins, while they have greater of their own.