A26965:231
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.
In Justinian's time when Paulus an Orthodox man was made Patriarch, he could not hold his seat without such plots, as occasioned Rhodo the Augustalis to murder Psoius the Deacon, ⟨p. 65⟩which cost Rhodo and Arsenius their lives, and Paulus his contemptuous deposition, by the Emperors justice. Should we but run over the history of other great Churches, especially Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Ephesus, Caesarea, alas how sadly would it show that neither Emperors nor synods assuming the power did end such Schisms, but increase them, where the Bishoprics were so great as to seem a very desirable prey: But where they were small and poor•, there was far greater peace and quietness, though the people commonly had their choice, and every where their consent was judged necessary; the proofs of which might fill a Volume. See in Synodo Romano quarto sub Symmacho (in Binnio Vol. 2. p. 288.) &c. the claim of Odoacer that no Bishop of Rome should be made without the consent of the King of Italy; And the Bishops speeches against it. Even in the days of Gregor. 1. Rom. You may see how things went, by the constant tradition of the Church; Epist. 22. (in Bin. Vol. 2. p. 759. recitat) [natalem Salonitanae Ecclesiae scatrem & coepiscopum nostrum ob••sse discurrens in partibus istis sama vulgavit: Q•od si verum esti experientia tua om•i instantia omnique solicitudine CLERUM & POPULUM ejusdem Civitatis admonere festinet, quatenus uno consensu ad ordinandum sibi debeant eligere Sacerdotem; factoque in personam quae suerit clecta decreto, ad nos transmittere studebis, ut cum nostro consensu sicut priscis suit temporibus ordinetur. Illud prae omnibus tibi curae sit ut in hac electione nec datio quibusque modis interveniat praemiorum, nec quarumlibet personarum patrocinia convalescant; nam si quorundam ⟨p. 66⟩patrocinio fuerit quisquam Electus, Volunt atibus eor•m cum fuerit ordinatus obedire, reverentia exigent compellitur—Talem ergo te admonente personam debent eligere, quae nullius incongruae voluntati deserviat, sed vita & moribus decorata, tanto ordine digna valeat inveniri. And at the Council Paris. 3. in the days of Pope