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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.
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 ⟨p. 156⟩of your Description, who will believe that knoweth?
1. What Christ saith, Mat. 18. 15. &c. and Paul, 1 Cor. 5. and 2 Thess. 3. Tit. 3. 10, 11, &c.
2. Or he that knoweth that the Universal Church of Christ in all Ages, hath been of another mind; and indeed went at last too far against it, having no punishment for Christians, but Suspension and Excommunication.