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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 15
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2. Remember that the Confirmation in question is little kin to that which I and Mr. Hanmer have written for: A very Learned Bishop told me lately, that it is for the giving of the Holy Ghost by Imposition of hands: And (whatever you feign) it is confined to the Order of Bishops. Do you know what Dallaeus de Confirmat. hath said against it? And that all are against it as with us that are against Diocesan Prelacy? I know few Non-Conformists in England, that are for it, or desire it. When I pleaded for it in 1660. hoping to have reduced the English Confirmation to that which I described in my Treatise of Confirmation, had you but heard how much the truly Learned, judicious, honest Dr. Wallis said against it, who is a public Professor in Oxford, a Conformist, and the King's Chaplain, you would not think that you shall never meet with any that will not desire it, &c.
2. Remember that the Confirmation in question is little kin to that which I and Mr. Hanmer have written for: A very Learned Bishop told me lately, that it is for the giving of the Holy Ghost by Imposition of hands: And (whatever you feign) it is confined to the Order of Bishops. Do you know what Dallaeus de Confirmat. hath said against it? And that all are against it as with us that are against Diocesan Prelacy? I know few Non-Conformists in England, that are for it, or desire it. When I pleaded for it in 1660. hoping to have reduced the English Confirmation to that which I described in my Treatise of Confirmation, had you but heard how much the truly Learned, judicious, honest Dr. Wallis said against it, who is a publick Professor in Oxford, a Conformist, and the King's Chaplain, you would not think that you shall never meet with any that will not desire it, &c.
3. I think most of England are unconfirmed; if they desire it, what keepeth them from it?
4. They may not desire it, and yet not be kept from the Sacrament: For he that receiveth it not of you, or any Conformists, may receive it of others: And all the Conformists that ever I saw deliver the Sacrament, give it to the unconfirmed, and never ask them whether they desire it. And yet you must covenant not to give it to any such as desire not Confirmation and Consent that this be imposed on all others.