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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.
4. The indispensable Law of Nature obligeth every man according to his Place and Calling, his Ability, and his Opportunities, to do his best to propagate Christ's Gospel, and to save mens souls, as much and more than to seed mens bodies, and save their lives: But our Calling is to do it as Ministers of Christ, thereto devoted. And we did not receive this Calling to be altered, or forborne at the will of man, but to be performed according to the Word of God: Men being not the Makers of the Office, nor of God's Law under which we execute it; nor the Donors ⟨p. 85⟩or Limiters of the Power, but only 1. The Electors of the Persons that shall receive it; 2. And the Investers of them in it by Ministerial delivery; 3. And the Governors of us in the exercise of it, according to God's Laws, by which they may punish us for male administration, but cannot dissolve the Laws obligation to those that are indeed commanded by it.
4. The indispensible Law of Nature obligeth every man according to his Place and Calling, his Ability, and his Opportunities, to do his best to propagate Christ's Gospel, and to save mens souls, as much and more than to seed mens bodies, and save their lives: But our Calling is to do it as Ministers of Christ, thereto devoted. And we did not receive this Calling to be altered, or forborn at the will of man, but to be performed according to the Word of God: Men being not the Makers of the Office, nor of God's Law under which we execute it; nor the Donors ⟨p. 85⟩or Limiters of the Power, but only 1. The Electors of the Persons that shall receive it; 2. And the Investers of them in it by Ministerial delivery; 3. And the Governours of us in the exercise of it, according to God's Laws, by which they may punish us for male administration, but cannot dissolve the Laws obligation to those that are indeed commanded by it.
LI. Obj. 2. If there be able Preachers in one part of the Parishes, and the other part have such as deliver all that is necessary to salvation intelligibly, it is unlawful to Preach against the will of the Prince or Prelates in such a Country.