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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.
2. How prove you that none of these are Dogs or Swine?
3. Yea, are not all they swinish despisers of Grace, who will not be persuaded to consent that God shall be their God, and Christ their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost their Sanctifier, and give up themselves to him in these Relations?
§ 2. Yet Page 30. the Case is this, [If the People being Christened do make a credible profession of true Christianity, or a profession of true Christianity which we cannot prove to be false, at least by a violent Presumption, we must accept their Profession and admit them.]
Ans. This is mine as cited, and the plain truth. But,
1. Did you think that a credible profession of true Christianity, is not a credible profession of Conversion? Are not true Christians saved? What else are Men to be Converted to?