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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. 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.)
1. I used the Name, and he the Definition: It may be he thought that by [City] I had meant only such Towns as are so called in England: But methinks he should know that the word [Greek or Hebrew], signifieth all such Towns as he defineth, and that it is the common definition of Civitas which ⟨p. 160⟩he giveth us, as all Politics speak de Civitate: It is therefore the same subject in the Similitude, which we both speak of.
1. I used the Name, and he the Definition: It may be he thought that by [City] I had meant only such Towns as are so called in England: But methinks he should know that the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, signifieth all such Towns as he defineth, and that it is the common definition of Civitas which ⟨p. 160⟩he giveth us, as all Politicks speak de Civitate: It is therefore the same subject in the Similitude, which we both speak of.