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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 43: Point XL. Of forsaking our Ministry, and ceasing to Preach the Gospel, and Banishment F…
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.
L. But what is four Parishes to all the rest, and the Common Case?
M. I pray you enquire in Clement Danes, Westminster, Andrews Holborn, Sepulchres, Christ-Church, Aldgate, Shoreditch, White-Chapel, Olives and Magdalen's Southwark. &c. and you may hear how many others come near to the same Case: And must so famous a City as L•ndon be Paganized or made so Atheistical?
M. I pray you enquire in Clement Danes, Westminster, Andrews Holborn, Sepulchres, Christ-Church, Aldgate, Shoreditch, White-Chappel, Olives and Magdalenes Southwa•k. &c. and you may hear how many others come near to the same Case: And must so famous a City as L•ndon be Paganized or made so Atheistical?
L. You lay heavy Charges on the Parliament and Bishops that have silenced you: you are best take heed what you say.
M. No honest heed will secure a man in this Age of malignity and perjury. But you mistake me: I meddle not with the Parliament, Laws, or Bishops, much less with the King: I leave all men to their righteous Judge, who is at the door: To his Judgment they stand or fall: I only tell you what I think it would be in us that are Vowed to the sacred Ministry, if we desert our Office and Work for Man's Prohibition.