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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.
For 1. God in Nature and Scripture hath given them that consenting power antecedent to the Princes determination, which none can take from them. As he hath in nature given men the Choice (or Consent at least) with what Physician they will trust their lives: God hath not put all sick mens lives so far in the Princes power as to bind them to trust and use whomsoever he shall choose: For men are nearest to themselves, and their lives are at their own wills in the first instance, ⟨p. 56⟩before they are at another's: And mens souls and everlasting happiness are preciouser to them than their lives, and it is first under God their own wills by which they shall live or die; though all their friends should do their best to make them willing of what is best.
For 1. God in Nature and Scripture hath given them that consenting power antecedent to the Princes determination, which none can take from them. As he hath in nature given men the Choice (or Consent at least) with what Physician they will trust their lives: God hath not put all sick mens lives so far in the Princes power as to bind them to trust and use whomsoever he shall chuse: For men are nearest to themselves, and their lives are at their own wills in the first instance, ⟨p. 56⟩before they are at anothers: And mens souls and everlasting happiness are preciouser to them than their lives, and it is first under God their own wills by which they shall live or die; though all their friends should do their best to make them willing of what is best.
2. They are supposed related duly to their tried Pastors, in the bond of fidelity, which they may not unnecessarily violate.
2. They are supposed related duely to their tryed Pastors, in the bond of fidelity, which they may not unnecessarily violate.