A26911:664
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.
If this be false you should have confuted it, and not wrangle in the Dark.
§ 10. You say that I blame the Bishops for putting down all the Parish Bishops and Churches— when I my self do no less by putting down all the Chapel Ministers, Chapel Meetings and Oratories, and denying them to be proper Pastors and Churches. Ans. All false, or a mere Game at Equivocal words: The word Chapel usually signifieth a place for the Assembling of some small part of a Church, with a Curate, or Household Chaplain, who hath only power to Preach and Pray, (and sometimes to give the Sacrament) but not to Govern: Sometime a Chapel may have a Governing Pastor, and People subject to him in that relation, and differeth but in name from the Parish Church. It is a mere Chapel or Oratory, in the common sense, which I say is not a Political Church.
§ 10. You say that I blame the Bishops for putting down all the Parish Bishops and Churches— when I my self do no less by putting down all the Chapple Ministers, Chappel Meetings and Oratories, and denying them to be proper Pastors and Churches. Ans. All false, or a meer Game at Equivocal words: The word Chappel usually signifieth a place for the Assembling of some small part of a Church, with a Curate, or Houshold Chaplain, who hath only power to Preach and Pray, (and sometimes to give the Sacrament) but not to Govern: Sometime a Chappel may have a Governing Pastor, and People subject to him in that relation, and differeth but in name from the Parish Church. It is a meer Chappel or Oratory, in the common sense, which I say is not a Political Church.
The falsehood of your pretended parity of the Cases I prove: Those Congregations which are Constituted of Ministers of different Species, are ⟨p. 167⟩