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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.
§ 9. Another of my Errors is, that Parish Chapels and Oratories, are no true Churches. Ans. You should not thus become an Incendiary, by pretending things that you will not first understand: Where do I say what you affirm? I say, That there may be several Chapels that are but parts of one Church. 2. And I say, That if a Bishop be Essential to a Church, then none below a Diocese is a Church; and therefore that they that so affirm, do put down all Parish Churches and turn them into mere Chapels and Oratories, which are but parts of a Church. 3. I never said, That if a ⟨p. 166⟩place called in English a Chapel (yea, if a Barn, or Field, or Ship,) have such a Pastor and People meeting, as a Church must be Constituted of, that they are no true Church. 4. But if such Pastors and People related as one Church, are by Persecution forced to meet in several Houses, or the Sick, Weak, or Distant, to meet sometime at a Chapel, or without a true Pastor; if a Deacon pray with some of them in a House, or Oratory, this maketh not a Church Political, in the sense that I told you I used that word in; but in another (Equivocal) sense it may be called a Church, and so a Family may be.
§ 9. Another of my Errors is, that Parish Chappels and Oratories, are no true Churches. Ans. You should not thus become an Incendiary, by pretending things that you will not first understand: Where do I say what you affirm? I say, That there may be several Chappels that are but parts of one Church. 2. And I say, That if a Bishop be Essential to a Church, then none below a Diocess is a Church; and therefore that they that so affirm, do put down all Parish Churches and turn them into meer Chappels and Oratories, which are but parts of a Church. 3. I never said, That if a ⟨p. 166⟩place called in English a Chappel (yea, if a Barn, or Field, or Ship,) have such a Pastor and People meeting, as a Church must be Constituted of, that they are no true Church. 4. But if such Pastors and People related as one Church, are by Persecution forced to meet in several Houses, or the Sick, Weak, or Distant, to meet sometime at a Chappel, or without a true Pastor; if a Deacon pray with some of them in a House, or Oratory, this maketh not a Church Political, in the sense that I told you I used that word in; but in another (Equivocal) sense it may be called a Church, and so a Family may be.