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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
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 10
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CHAP. X.
§ 1. Your 9th Section, about not coming to the Sacrament without a full trust in God's Mercy and a quiet Conscience, tells us what the Imposure should have said, when I only except against what they have said. The Case is so gross, I am apt to think they meant as you say; especially when I consider that those must be Ruined that have not a quiet Conscience, if they will not, or dare not Communicate. But if well meaning Men put me to assent to words of a contrary signification in the common use, I had rather approve their good meanings, than their imposed words, through oversight so expressed.
§ 1. YOur 9th Section, about not coming to the Sacrament without a full trust in God's Mercy and a quiet Conscience, tells us what the Imposure should have said, when I only except against what they have said. The Case is so gross, I am apt to think they meant as you say; especially when I consider that those must be Ruined that have not a quiet Conscience, if they will not, or dare not Communicate. But if well meaning Men put me to assent to words of a contrary signification in the common use, I had rather approve their good meanings, than their imposed words, through oversight so expressed.
CHAP. XI.
§ 1. About the use of the Apocrypha, you quite mistook the Question: It was not chiefly whether you may use or read it, but whether you may approve and consent to the Calendar and Rubric which imposeth it, to be read; yea, those Books of Tobit, Judith, Bell and the Dragon, &c. If you say that you Consent not to the Calendar and Rubric, I ask, 1. Is it not contained in the Book? 2. Is it of no use, when the use is named in the Preface? Cannot we thus say any thing required, and mean what we list by it? Teach not the Papists to take the imposed Test and Oaths at such a rate as this.