A26965:145
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
XXXVI. Christ and his Apostles having (as is aforesaid) settled the Right of Ordination on the Senior Pastors or Bishops and the Right of Consenting in the People, (and this continued long even under Christian Emperors) Princes or Patrons may not deprive either party of their Right, but preserving such Rights, they may 1. Offer meet Pastors to the Ordainers and Consenters to be accepted, when there is just cause for their interposition: 2. They may hinder both Ordainers and People from introducing intolerable men: 3. They may, when a Peoples Ignorance, Faction or Wilfulness maketh them refuse all that are truly fit for them, urge them to accept the best; and may possess such of the Temples, and Public Maintenance, and make it consequently to become the Peoples duty to consent, as is aforesaid; so also when they are divided.
XXXVI. Christ and his Apostles having (as is aforesaid) settled the Right of Ordination on the Senior Pastors or Bishops and the Right of Consenting in the People, (and this continued long even under Christian Emperours) Princes or Patrons may not deprive either party of their Right, but preserving such Rights, they may 1. Offer meet Pastors to the Ordainers and Consenters to be accepted, when there is just cause for their interposition: 2. They may hinder both Ordainers and People from introducing intollerable men: 3. They may, when a Peoples Ignorance, Faction or Wilfulness maketh them refuse all that are truly fit for them, urge them to accept the best; and may possess such of the Temples, and Publick Maintenance, and make it consequently to become the Peoples duty to consent, as is aforesaid; so also when they are divided.
XXXVII. Princes ought to be Preservers of Peace and Charity among the Churches; and to hinder Preachers from unrighteous and uncharitable ⟨p. 34⟩reviling each other, and their unpeaceable controversies and contentions.