A26965:174
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.
XX. 18. If the men that do this should be mere obtruders and usurpers, that have no true Pastoral power over those whom they persecute (as the Pope over other Kingdoms and Churches) ⟨p. 43⟩this were yet more aggravated schism.
XX. 18. If the men that do this should be mere obtruders and usurpers, that have no true Pastoral power over those whom they persecute (as the Pope over other Kingdoms and Churches) ⟨p. 43⟩this were yet more aggravated schisme.
XXI. 19. If such Usurpers will claim a dominion or Monarchy over all the world, and unchurch, degrade and unchristen all that will not be their Subjects, or will impose sinful terms of Union upon all the Christian World, and declare all Heretics or Schismatics, that receive them not, and so cast out most of the Christians on Earth, and all the sounder Churches, this is one of the most heinous sorts of Schism, that the mind of man can think of. Which is the grand Schism of the Roman Papacy, worse than all their interior Schisms when they had many Popes at once.
XXI. 19. If such Usurpers will claim a dominion or Monarchy over all the world, and unchurch, degrade and unchristen all that will not be their Subjects, or will impose sinful termes of Vnion upon all the Christian World, and declare all Hereticks or Schismaticks, that receive them not, and so cast out most of the Christians on Earth, and all the sounder Churches, this is one of the most heynous sorts of Schism, that the mind of man can think of. Which is the grand Schism of the Roman Papacy, worse than all their interior Schisms when they had many Popes at once.