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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.
Ans. 1. This Objection granteth, that when the commanded Assemblies or Worship are such as it is not lawful to be present at; 1. The people are discerning Judges; 2. And may lawfully meet else where under Pastors of their own choice.
2. But let the Question be, (not whether we may be present in their Churches, but) whether we may set up other Churches, when we are necessarily kept from those established by Public Power? and it will go far.
2. But let the Question be, (not whether we may be present in their Churches, but) whether we may set up other Churches, when we are necessarily kept from those established by Publick Power? and it will go far.
7. When the Form of Worship and Concord called the Interim, was by Charles the 5th. imposed on the German Protestants, (being drawn ⟨p. 78⟩up by Julius Pflug, Sidonius, and Islebius Agricola, men pretending to moderation, as not imposing the Mass, &c. the Protestants judged it lawful to gather Assemblies, and keep up Churches contrary to such an Edict of the Emperor: One half of them held on their former way, till banishment or other violence hindered them. Melanchthon and the others that thought the things commanded not utterly unlawful, conformed only to prevent the utter desolation of the Churches; but not in conscionable obedience to the Emperors Edict, as if it had been any Schism to do otherwise if they could have been endured: As may be seen in Melanchthon's own words in his Epistles, and elsewhere.
7. When the Form of Worship and Concord called the Interim, was by Charles the 5th. imposed on the German Protestants, (being drawn