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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.
The 4th Quest. is, [If we take you alone for our Pastor?] And it's answered, [We know of no other in view but you.] Ans. All these are Fictions. 1. I never desired nor consented to be their Pastor, but to be one of three. 2. I agreed with them in the Town-Hall publicly in writing, to undertake only a Lecture which I had before the War, in conjunction with another that should have the Presentation or Sequestration. And yet honest Mr. Durel tells the World that it was a rich Benefice given me for my Service under Cromwell, (who would never endure me to speak to him.) 3. There were three Competitors: One an old Vicar, that (somehow) preached once a Quarter, that had the Presentation and was Sequestered. (1. I will not tell you here for what.) 2. His Curate sequestered and removed. 3. An old Chapel Curate, grossly ignorant and vicious, that lived by unlawful Marrying.
The 4th Quest. is, [If we take you alone for our Pastor?] And it's answered, [We know of no other in view but you.] Ans. All these are Fictions. 1. I never desired nor consented to be their Pastor, but to be one of three. 2. I agreed with them in the Town-Hall publickly in writing, to undertake only a Lecture which I had before the War, in conjunction with another that should have the Presentation or Sequestration. And yet honest Mr. Durel tells the World that it was a rich Benefice given me for my Service under Cromwel, (who would never endure me to speak to him.) 3. There were three Competitors: One an old Vicar, that (somehow) preacht once a Quarter, that had the Presentation and was Sequestred. (1. I will not tell you here for what.) 2. His Curate sequestred and removed. 3. An old Chappel Curate, grosly ignorant and vicious, that lived by unlawful Marrying.
4. And by all this you determine that of three of us, ⟨p. 175⟩none was Pastor but only that one that had the Presentation; and so you depose all other Curates not presented. And yet the Chapels that have such Curates put in only by the Parsons are true Churches; such are your frequent Contradictions.