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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
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. Have I pleaded with you any such Impulses or Inspirations, as the Reasons of our Dissent? Is there any such thing in above 100 Books that I have written? Did we use any such Argument in our Dispute with the Bishops? but the Papists call every mans Faith that is his Own, and not taken merely on trust as the Churches Faith, by the Name of a Private Spirit.
M. Have I pleaded with you any such Impulses or Inspirations, as the Reasons of our Dissent? Is there any such thing in above 100 Books that I have written? Did we use any such Argument in our Dispute with the Bishops? but the Papists call every mans Faith that is his Own, and not taken meerly on trust as the Churches Faith, by the Name of a Private Spirit.
L. Obj. II. They say you make a Schism and Stir for mere tristes and things indifferent, viz. Ceremonies and Liturgy; confessing that they are not unlawful.
L. Obj. II. They say you make a Schism and Stir for meer tristes and things indifferent, viz. Ceremonies and Liturgy; confessing that they are not unlawful.
M. 1. And what if they say that we are Turks or Heathens, or have Horns and are Brutes, what remedy have we? To their honour be it spoken, we would not hope to confute them. 2. Do you not know that so far are we from this, that even under the old easier Impositions, we protested to the Bishops in our Petitions for Peace, That we would yield to any thing but Sin against God, and we endeavoured to prove Conformity sinful? And do they well agree with themselves, when Dr. Stilling fleet saith, that I would represent Conformity such as should make them seem a company of Perjured Villains? 3. I pray you tell me, whether the 52. Points now opened by me, be nothing but Liturgy and Ceremonies, and whether you take them all to be things indifferent. Is it not an odd sort of Accusers that we have, that sometimes say we suspect the Nation of common Perjury, and the Church of Subverting, Corruption, and overthrow of Discipline, and Excommunicating Christs Faithful Servants; and shortly after say, We Dissent only about things Indifferent? God have mercy on those miserably Souls that take such things for Indifferent. 4. Who is it troubles the Land with their things Indifferent? Is it we? Did we devise them? Do we impose them on any,