A26965:197
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.
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.
XXX. 28. When able faithful Pastors are lawfully set over the Assemblies, by just Election and Ordination, if any will causelessly, and without right silence them, and command the people to desert them, and to take others for their Pastors in their stead, of whom they have no such knowledge as may encourage them to such a ⟨p. 50⟩change, we cannot defend this from the charge of Schism, which puts a Congregation on so hard a means of Concord, as to judge whether they are bound to that Pastor that was set over them as Christ appointed, or must renounce him and take the other when they are Commanded. So Cyprian in the case of Novatian says that he could be no Bishop because another was rightful Bishop before.
XXX. 28. When able faithful Pastors are lawfully set over the Assemblies, by just Election and Ordination, if any will causelesly, and without right silence them, and command the people to desert them, and to take others for their Pastors in their stead, of whom they have no such knowledge as may encourage them to such a ⟨p. 50⟩change, we cannot defend this from the charge of Schism, which puts a Congregation on so hard a means of Concord, as to judge whether they are bound to that Pastor that was set over them as Christ appointed, or must renounce him and take the other when they are Commanded. So Cyprian in the case of Novatian sayes that he could be no Bishop because another was rightfull Bishop before.