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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Chapter 61: Whether the Extirpation of the Non-Conformists, be not rather to be attempted, than an…
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L. If all, I doubt the King would lose no small part of his Subjects: But you know the Papists are not numbered with the Dissenters or Conventiclers.
L. If all, I doubt the King would lose no small part of his Subjects: But you know the Papists are not numbred with the Dissenters or Conventiclers.
M. Say you so? Do those that differ but about a Ceremony, or Lay-mans use of the Keys, or the largeness and paucity of Bishops Churches, dissent more from you than the Papists, that would bring King and Kingdom under a foreign Jurisdiction, and introduce all the Mass and doctrinal corruptions of their Church. Read Bishop Downham's Catalogue of Popish Errours de Anti-Christo, or Dr. Willet's, Chamier's, Jewell's, or any such, and judge. And do you think that the Mass is no Conventicle, or more lawful than the forbidden assemblies of Protestants?
M. Say you so? Do those that differ but about a Ceremony, or Lay-mans use of the Keys, or the largeness and paucity of Bishops Churches, dissent more from you than the Papists, that would bring King and Kingdom under a foreign Jurisdiction, and introduce all the Mass and doctrinal corruptions of their Church. Read Bishop Downham's Catalogue of Popish Errours de Anti-Christo, or Dr. Willet's, Chamier's, Iewell's, or any such, and judge. And do you think that the Mass is no Conventicle, or more lawful than the forbidden assemblies of Protestants?
L. Well, But it's Protestant-Dissenters that. I mean.