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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.
§ 15. Next I am censured for demanding the People of Kidderminster's consent to my Ministry, and their Church Relation. And he will now be distinct, and maketh Answers to `distinct Questions for them: But never tells us whether such Answers had been true or false, if they had given them.
§ 15. Next I am censured for demanding the People of Kederminster's consent to my Ministry, and their Church Relation. And he will now be distinct, and maketh Answers to `distinct Questions for them: But never tells us whether such Answers had been true or false, if they had given them.
His first Question is, [Do we take you to have the just qualifications of a Pastor?] And the Answer is, [Learning is one qualification of which the Ignorant are incompetent Judges: And for Wisdom, Holiness, and Ministerial skill of Fidelity, you are to make proof of them: This is to be answered some Years after, and not ask before-hand.]
His first Question is, [Do we take you to have the just qualifications of a Pastor?] And the Answer is, [Learning is one qualification of which the Ignorant are incompetent Iudges: And for Wisdom, Holiness, and Ministerial skill of Fidelity, you are to make proof of them: This is to be answered some Years after, and not ask before-hand.]
And so under Papists, Socinians, profane Imposers, you are to take all as Wise, Holy, Faithful, till some Years after you find them otherwise. Here he expoundeth his former words, for rejecting the unqualified and unfaithful. But who shall be judge at some Years after?
And so under Papists, Socinians, prophane Imposers, you are to take all as Wise, Holy, Faithful, till some Years after you find them otherwise. Here he expoundeth his former words, for rejecting the unqualified and unfaithful. But who shall be judge at some Years after?