A26965:163
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.
IX. 7. To accuse a Church (its Doctrine, Ministry Worship or Discipline) falsely, as guilty of such corruption which maketh it unlawful for any Christians to have communion with it, or falsely to pretend such faults for his own and others separation from it, is a great sin, though not so great as to unchurch it.
IX. 7. To accuse a Church (its Doctrine, Ministry Worship or Discipline) falsly, as guilty of such corruption which maketh it unlawful for any Christians to have communion with it, or falsly to pretend such faults for his own and others separation from it, is a great sin, though not so great as to unchurch it.
X. 8. To hold that every Error in the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, Pastors or People of that Church, yea though settled and continued, ⟨p. 41⟩and foreknown, not forced on us to consent to or practice, is sufficient cause to make Communion with the Church unlawful, is to hold a principle which would infer separation from all the known Churches in this world.
XI. 9. To draw others to such separation by such false accusations or opinions, is worse than to do it silently ones self; and the more the worse.