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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.
QUEST. III.
Whether a Minister may put from the Sacrament those of his Parish who be Christened People, and come to Church, and join in the Public Worship, and tender themselves to receive, being under no sentence of Excommunication? You say, He may not.
WHether a Minister may put from the Sacrament those of his Parish who be Christned People, and come to Church, and joyn in the Publick Worship, and tender themselves to receive, being under no sentence of Excommunication? You say, He may not.
Ans. § 1. 1. What's this to the Primitive Churches that were not Parishes? Or to the Countries that yet are not settled into Parish Churches? Or to such Churches as are but tolerated among Papists Parishes?
2. And all that is here mentioned, the Papists did for the first ten Years of Queen Elizabeth.
3. And remember that we have in our Parishes, many that are open Atheists, Infidels, Sadducees, Persecutors, Scorners of the Scripture and Religion, open boasting impenitent Whore-mongers, Blasphemers, Drunkards, &c. and many that openly deny the Ministry, and Sacraments; and yet to avoid Penalty, and for Custom, will do all that is here named, though they deride it: And that all these are to be received (though also you suppose that they never so much as professed consent to the Baptismal Covenant) you take on you to prove.