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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. Then all that stay at Home, or are Sick, are no Church-members.
2. Then the Bishop or Pastor, hath no Church but while Assembled: And he hath no Duty to perform for his Church, but while Assembled.
3. This is quite contrary to our Diocesans, who say (as honest Mr. Cawdry himself) that a Diocese is the first particular Church, and that it is no matter how many Assemblies it consist of, and that there is no Church without a Bishop, and so that ⟨p. 164⟩we have no more Churches than Bishops.
3. This is quite contrary to our Diocesans, who say (as honest Mr. Cawdry himself) that a Diocess is the first particular Church, and that it is no matter how many Assemblies it consist of, and that there is no Church without a Bishop, and so that ⟨p. 164⟩we have no more Churches than Bishops.