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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. As for my Book of [Universal Concord of all Christian Churches,] I know that the Devil hateth it so much, that I expect some far more subtle Assault than yours; or else I shall think that the Devil wanteth wit or power, more than is commonly believed. But I am sorry that he hath drawn so good a Man to be his instrument.
2. As for my Book of [Universal Concord of all Christian Churches,] I know that the Devil hateth it so much, that I expect some far more subtile Assault than yours; or else I shall think that the Devil wanteth wit or power, more than is commonly believed. But I am sorry that he hath drawn so good a Man to be his instrument.
§ 1. My first mentioned Error is [That a particular Church is a regular part of the Universal Church, as a City is of a Kingdom.] The confutation is [In this I conceive he is out: A particular Church is to the Church Universal with a single Town, consisting of a Magistrate Governing, and People governed, according to the general Rules and Principles of Society, is to all the World.
Ans. The proof is [I conceive he is out,] and an Assertion in other words of the same that is denied; and so we are out both (or neither.)