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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 1: THE True CASE OF THE English Nonconformity. In a DIALOGUE between A Silenced MINISTER a…
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.
M. Will you take us to be the just reporters what they are and hold?
L. No, you are Adversaries and partial.
M. And are not they as much so to us? Is not every man fitter to profess his own Faith than his Adversary is? And have you done well to judge before you heard and tried? Shall Judges do so on the Bench? Have you not all these years, continued guilty of false judging and uncharitableness, and that against a great number of the innocent? And if you every day prayed for forgiveness but as you forgive, even an enemy and real injury, what have you done all this while in condemning the guiltless?
M. And are not they as much so to us? Is not every man fitter to profess his own Faith than his Adversary is? And have you done well to judge before you heard and tryed? Shall Judges do so on the Bench? Have you not all these years, continued guilty of false judging and uncharitableness, and that against a great number of the innocent? And if you every day prayed for forgiveness but as you forgive, even an enemy and real injury, what have you done all this while in condemning the guiltless?