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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.
As we are not able to deny this experience ⟨p. 88⟩of the different fruits of different Teaching (when all have the Creed;) Nor dare deny the necessity of serious faith, repentance and holiness to salvation (lest we renounce the Gospel,) nor yet that no men (much less most men or many thousands) may as an act of obedience to man, refuse those helps which God provideth them, and without which few Comparatively are truly converted from a Carnal life and saved; so therefore we dare not think or say, that humane Laws or orders are arguments of sufficient weight to move them hereunto.
As we are not able to deny this experience ⟨p. 88⟩of the different fruits of different Teaching (when all have the Creed;) Nor dare deny the necessity of serious faith, repentance and holiness to salvation (lest we renounce the Gospel,) nor yet that no men (much less most men or many thousands) may as an act of obedience to man, refuse those helps which God provideth them, and without which few Comparatively are truely converted from a Carnal life and saved; so therefore we dare not think or say, that humane Lawes or orders are arguments of sufficient weight to move them hereunto.
LIII. Obj. 3. But the hurt of the peoples choosing Teachers and Assemblies without or against the Rulers will, is greater than the hurt that cometh by the want of better Teachers.
LIII. Obj. 3. But the hurt of the peoples chusing Teachers and Assemblies without or against the Rulers will, is greater than the hurt that cometh by the want of better Teachers.