A26965:169
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.
XV. 13. If any should make sinful terms of Communion, by Laws, or Mandates, imposing things forbidden by God, on those that will have ⟨p. 42⟩Communion with them, and expelling those that will not so sin, this were heinous Schism: And the further those Laws extend, and the more Ministers or People are cast out by them, the greater is the Schism.
XVI. 14. If any should not only excommunicate such persons for not complying with them in sin, but also prosecute them with mulcts, imprisonments, banishments, or other prosecution, to force them to transgress, this were yet more heinously aggravated Schism.
XVII. 15. All those would be deeply guilty of such Schism who by talk, writing, or preaching, justify it, and cry it up, and draw others into the guilt, and reproach the Innocent as Schismatics, for not offending God.
XVII. 15. All those would be deeply guilty of such Schism who by talk, writing, or preaching, justifie it, and cry it up, and draw others into the guilt, and reproach the Innocent as Schismaticks, for not offending God.