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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.
1. That you introduce a new sort of Christianity.
2. That you hereby would change the very Essence of the Church, and woefully corrupt it: A worse thing than to impose new Ceremonies.
2. That you hereby would change the very Essence of the Church, and wofully corrupt it: A worse thing than to impose new Ceremonies.
3. That by denying the truth of so universal concurrent Tradition, as the form of Baptism hath; you will shake Mens Faith by weakening the Credit of that Tradition, by which we have received the Bible: It being a harder matter to keep all the words of such a Book, than the Form of Baptism, used on every Christian in the World.
3. That by denying the truth of so universal concurrent Tradition, as the form of Baptism hath; you will shake Mens Faith by weakning the Credit of that Tradition, by which we have received the Bible: It being a harder matter to keep all the words of such a Book, than the Form of Baptism, used on every Christian in the World.