A26965:186
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.
3. When such Assemblies are gathered in opposition to some Truth which the Separators would thereby disown (e. g. Infant-Baptism, the lawfulness of Set-forms of Praise or Prayer, or any sound Doctrine;) or for the profession and propagation of some Heresy or Error (as Antinomianism, Popery, &c.)
3. When such Assemblies are gathered in opposition to some Truth which the Separaters would thereby disown (e. g. Infant-Baptism, the lawfulness of Set-forms of Praise or Prayer, or any sound Doctrine;) or for the profession and propagation of some Heresie or Error (as Antinomianism, Popery, &c.)
4. When such Churches are gathered by men that have no true Fitness and Calling for the Sacred Ministry, or the work which they undertake.
5. When they are gathered by the pride of the Ministers, that would thereby unduly set up themselves, and draw away Disciples after them; or by their covetousness, seeking not the good of ⟨p. 48⟩the Flock, but the Fleece; not them, but theirs; not serving the Lord Jesus, but their own Bellies: Or when gathered, by the Pride of the People, that unjustly think those that they separate from, men unworthy of their Communion, and say to them, Come not near to us, we are holier than you, Isa. 65. 5.