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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
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.
3. And yet sometimes you would that think he took a Parish of such Assemblers for a Church.
4. And it is matter of Fact past all dispute, that not only all the Papists, the first ten Years of Queen Elizabeth, came to our Churches, and some do so still; but that abundance such as aforesaid, come to the Parish Churches, who in Coffee-Houses talk against Christianity, or the immortality of the Soul, or the Scriptures, and such as write Books to the same purposes; and these are not converted from Sadducism, Bestiality, or Infidelity.
4. And it is matter of Fact past all dispute, that not only all the Papists, the first ten Years of Queen Elizabeth, came to our Churches, and some do so still; but that abundance such as aforesaid, come to the Parish Churches, who in Coffee-Houses talk against Christianity, or the immortality of the Soul, or the Scriptures, and such as write Books to the same purposes; and these are not converted from Sadducism, Beastiality, or Infidelity.
5. And then mark whether any of this Brother's Arguments do prove, that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, was ordained for such Men to use for their Conversion.