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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. If you reduce your objection to an argument, it must run thus; (All those are disloyal to the King who think that this vow binds them to be against Profaneness, Popery or Schism, or to endeavour any amending or alteration of the prelatical way of Church-Government: But, &c. I deny the Major. Is he an honourer of the King that dare affirm this?) We are ready to renounce all Obligation from that or any other Covenant, to any disloyalty what ever.
M. If you reduce your objection to an argument, it must run thus; (All those are disloyal to the King who think that this vow binds them to be against Prophaneness, Popery or Schism, or to endeavour any amending or alteration of the prelatical way of Church-Government: But, &c. I deny the Major. Is he an honourer of the King that dare affirm this?) We are ready to renounce all Obligation from that or any other Covenant, to any disloyalty what ever.
L. Obj. VIII. They say that your Preaching is unnecessary, there being Ministers enough without you, and therefore that you Preach but to keep up a party, and your own Reputation and Interest in them.
L. Obj. VIII. They say that your Preaching is unnecessary, there being Ministers enough without you, and therefore that you Praech but to keep up a party, and your own Reputation and Interest in them.
M. And I think that Priest fitter for tears than for disputes, that so little knoweth England, or the work of the Office they undertake: If I know the Church that hath such a Pastor, I shall ⟨p. 218⟩be past doubt that they have need of help. I would as soon believe him if he undertook to build a Castle alone, and said he had no need of help; or that forty thousand of the poor of London have no need of relief, and that it is rebellion to relieve them; as that the forementioned two hundred thousand have no need of teaching or Ministerial help for their souls.