A26965:195
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.
12. When they separate out of a profaneness of mind, not enduring the power of the Preachers doctrine, or the holiness and discipline of the Church, but would be licentious, while they would be called Religious. All these are unlawful separations, and assemblings.
12. When they separate out of a prophaneness of mind, not enduring the power of the Preachers doctrine, or the holiness and discipline of the Church, but would be licentious, while they would be called Religious. All these are unlawful separations, and assemblings.
•. Yet that which is unlawful as to the Principle, End and Manner, secundum quid, is not always unlawful simply, and in the thing it self, for a proud, covetous turbulent person may sinfully do a Lawful thing.
•. Yet that which is unlawful as to the Principle, End and Manner, secundum quid, is not alwaies unlawful simply, and in the thing it self, for a proud, covetous turbulent person may sinfully do a Lawful thing.
XXIX. 27. When Pastors by concord, or Magistrates by Laws have settled Lawful Circumstances or Accidents of Church Order or Worship, or Discipline, though they be in particular but humane Institutions, it is Sinful disobedience to violate them without necessary reason. e. g. Parochial Order, Associations, Times, Places, Ministers, Maintenance, Scripture-Translations, &c.
XXIX. 27. When Pastors by concord, or Magistrates by Laws have setled Lawful Circumstances or Accidents of Church Order or Worship, or Discipline, though they be in particular but humane Institutions, it is Sinful disobedience to violate them without necessary reason. e. g. Parochial Order, Associations, Times, Places, Ministers, Maintenance, Scripture-Translations, &c.