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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.
L. Obj. IV. They say you are Non-Conformists merely to make good your former Errors, because you will not confess that you did amiss, but will make the People justify you.
L. Obj. IV. They say you are Non-Conformists meerly to make good your former Errours, because you will not confess that you did amiss, but will make the People justify you.
M. 1. What are those Errors? If it be our dislike of any of the things before described, I confess it is because we will not renounce them: If it be an error to be against their Church-corruptions, and cruel Excommunications, and denying Christendom to the Seed of the Faithful, and Communion to faithful ⟨p. 215⟩Christians, I confess we will not recant these errors, till they have better proved them such. The Papists that swarm with Errors, as a Beggar doth with Lice, yet burn the Protestants as for Error. 2. I pray you wish those infallible men, that in the ditch of dirt are delivered from all the uncleanness of error, to send only those those that are without error to cast the first stone at us, or those that have no worse error than ours to silence, excommunicate and destroy us. 3. Have we given them no reasons of our dissent? 4. Do they not know that the argument that hath brought us all into the case that we are in, was thus given us 1664. and oft since in Print?1 [If we abate them any thing, they will say that our Church was faulty, and needed that Reformation] who then is it that hath divided us to avoid confession of any former faultiness? Tho' good Bishop Hall pronounceth a heavy Sentence on them that will justify the miscarriages of the Prelates.
M. 1. What are those Errours? If it be our dislike of any of the things before described, I confess it is because we will not renounce them: If it be an errour to be against their Church-corruptions, and cruel Excommunications, and denying Christendom to the Seed of the Faithful, and Communion to faithful