A26924:1189
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
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.
Q. 42. When Jonah over-ran an unpleasing Ministry, did not God overtake him with his Judgment? And if we prove Jonasses, may we not expect to meet with Storms more terrible than Jails?
Q. 42. VVhen Ionas over-ran an unpleasing Ministery, did not God overtake him with his Judgment? And if we prove Ionasses, may we not expect to meet with Storms more terrible than Jails?
Q. 43. Can all this said and done against such in the world, ever make the sober that knew them, believe, that such a man as Anthony Burges, Mr. Porter, Mr. Hildersham (the Son) Mr. Hughes, Mr. Richard Allen, and hundreds much like them, were worthy Silencing, Imprisonment and Shame, while such as fill some thousand Churches are worthy of maintenance and honour? Or will sober Posterity who read the Lives and Writings of such men as John Corbet, Joseph Allen, James and John Janeway, and abundance such others, believe that they were as bad as their accusers make them? There is but one way to bring them under the Infamy and Odium of Posterity; and that is the Papists way to kill all that are of another mind, and to drive Truth and Conscience out of the world, and then who would stay behind?
Q. 43. Can all this said and done against such in the world, ever make the sober that knew them, believe, that such a man as Anthony Burges, Mr. Porter, Mr. Hildersham (the Son) Mr. Hughes, Mr. Richard Allen, and hundreds much like them, were worthy Silencing, Imprisonment and Shame, while such as fill some thousand Churches are worthy of maintenance and honour? Or will sober Posterity who read the Lives and VVritings of such men as Iohn Corbet, Ioseph Allen, Iames and Iohn Ianeway, and abundance such others, believe that they were as bad as their accusers make them? There is but one way to bring them under the Infamy and Odium of Posterity; and that is the Papists way to kill all that are of another mind, and to drive Truth and Conscience out of the world, and then who would stay behind?