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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.
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.
XXII. 20. If such shall send agents and emissaries into the Dominions of Christians Princes or States, to draw the Subjects to that Schism, and make them believe that Princes are by right the Subjects of the Pope, and that men shall be damned if they will not take him for the Bishop or Vice-christ of all the World and keep up a rich and numerous Clergy in Christian Kingdoms for this use, and make Decrees to exterminate or burn Christians, and to depose temporal Lords that will not obey them and execute their laws, This is to maintain and prosecute a Schism against Religious and Civill peace, by open hostility to Princes and People, and to mankind.
XXII. 20. If such shall send agents and emissaries into the Dominions of Christians Princes or States, to draw the Subjects to that Schisme, and make them believe that Princes are by right the Subjects of the Pope, and that men shall be damned if they will not take him for the Bishop or Vice-christ of all the World and keep up a rich and numerous Clergie in Christian Kingdomes for this use, and make Decrees to exterminate or burn Christians, and to depose temporal Lords that will not obey them and execute their lawes, This is to maintain and prosecute a Schisme against Religious and Civill peace, by open hostility to Princes and People, and to mankind.