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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. 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?
2. Do all such as are afore described, make such a credible profession of true Christianity?
§ 3. You tell us that the Standard that Christ hath set is that, [If now thou be sincerely Penitent, thy Sin is pardoned, and thou hast right to Salvation, and mayst come to the Lord's Table.]
Ans. And doth not this imply, that else he should not come? And is such a Man Unconverted?
It is too irksome to rake up the rest of your Contradictions, and examine your slight words of the Parable of the Tares: But that rooting up the Tares forbidden is Excommunicating, or denying Sacramental Communion to any Parishioner