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.
Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
[14], 176 p. · 49k words · Wing B1238 · ESTC R10601
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.
Whether may Unconverted ones within the Church, demand and receive the Lord's Supper? Mr. Baxter saith flatly they may not. Right to Sacram. pag. 140. The Confutation followeth.
WHether may Unconverted ones within the Church, demand and receive the Lord's Supper? Mr. Baxter saith flatly they may not. Right to Sacram. pag. 140. The Confutation followeth.
§ 1. Ans. I can bethink me, but of one of these three Ends, of this your Writing: 1. Either barely to make a confession of your Faith and Judgment: 2. Or to save me from my Error by Conviction: 3. Or to save the Readers of my Book from the danger of them.
1. If the first be your Work, I confess your words [I conceive] are suitable: But Confessions use to be otherwise, concisely and orderly formed, and no Adversaries names besides Pilate's, needed to be put into your Creed.
2. If the second or third be your Work, you seem to think very contemptible of my Judgment, and of every such Readers, when you expect that when I have written, and they have read, full Disputations opening the state of the Question, proving what I assert by many Arguments and
⟨p. 146⟩
Scripture, vindicating twenty Arguments of Mr. Galespie's, from all that is answered to them, we should after this be convinced that our Cause is wrong, by one that neither will be at the labour distinctly to state the Controversy, nor to reply to my Answers already given to all his Reasonings and much more, nor to answer the many Arguments which I and others urge, but saith little more of any moment than [I am induced to think thus, though I once thought otherwise:] Yea, when you neither answer our Reasons, nor give us the tenth part so much for your Cause as we answered, yet we must not think that it [is on slight grounds] that you have taken up your Opinion, pag. 16. when what you say is so slight, that as I will not write over again what you vouchsafe not to answer; so, if your Reader have read my Book cited by you, I will not so reproach his judgment as to think, that he needeth any farther answer to this of yours. But if he have not read mine, nor will read it, he is in no danger of being seduced by it, and so your labour is in vain.
2. If the second or third be your Work, you seem to think very contemptible of my Judgment, and of every such Readers, when you expect that when I have written, and they have read, full Disputations opening the state of the Question, proving what I assert by many Arguments and ⟨p. 146⟩Scripture, vindicating twenty Arguments of Mr. Galespies, from all that is answered to them, we should after this be convinced that our Cause is wrong, by one that neither will be at the labour distinctly to state the Controversy, nor to reply to my Answers already given to all his Reasonings and much more, nor to answer the many Arguments which I and others urge, but saith little more of any moment than [I am induced to think thus, though I once thought otherwise:] Yea, when you neither answer our Reasons, nor give us the tenth part so much for your Cause as we answered, yet we must not think that it [is on slight grounds] that you have taken up your Opinion, pag. 16. when what you say is so slight, that as I will not write over again what you vouchsafe not to answer; so, if your Reader have read my Book cited by you, I will not so reproach his judgment as to think, that he needeth any farther answer to this of yours. But if he have not read mine, nor will read it, he is in no danger of being seduced by it, and so your labour is in vain.
