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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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M. And do not you know, 1. That the Author had never leave to confute his accusers about it? 2. Do you not know that he hath divers years ago written a large Book called his Second Plea for Peace, fully opening the Principles which he and his Consenters hold; and no man hath writte• one word against any of them, that I hear of, to this day? Is this fair dealing then to silence what at large he owneth, and name only a writing 29 years ago, which he never was heard about? 3. Do you not know that the Famously Learned Tho. White a Papist, wrote at the same time the like Doctrine, and will you charge that on the Party of Papist• ▪ ⟨p. 263⟩4. The Historians Rule is Distingue de temporibus, Do you know in what times that was written? And know you not that few men then living wrote and spake more plainly against the Usurpation than he did? 5. And you see that the Oxford Convocation condemn the writings and principles of the Doctors of the Church of England as well as others? And as for Knox and Buchanan we are no more guilty of their words than of Jewell's, Bilson's, Hooker's, Laud's, or any such.
M. And do not you know, 1. That the Author had never leave to confute his accusers about it? 2. Do you not know that he hath divers years ago written a large Book called his Second Plea for Peace, fully opening the Principles which he and his Consenters hold; and no man hath writte• one word against any of them, that I hear of, to this day? Is this fair dealing then to silence what at large he owneth, and name only a writing 29 years ago, which he never was heard about? 3. Do you not know that the Famously Learned Tho. White a Papist, wrote at the same time the like Doctrine, and will you charge that on the Party of Papist• ▪ ⟨p. 263⟩4. The Historians Rule is Distingue de temporibus, Do you know in what times that was written? And know you not that few men then living wrote and spake more plainly against the Usurpation than he did? 5. And you see that the Oxford Convocation condemn the writings and principles of the Doctors of the Church of England as well as others? And as for Knox and Buchanan we are no more guilty of their words than of Iewell's, Bilson's, Hooker's, Laud's, or any such.