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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.
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.
Ans. 1. The peoples choice doth hurt by accident, in those Countries, where the Rulers put down necessary helps, and where the people are Erroneous, Heretical, and Unruly, and so where the people would choose unsufferable men, supposing still that no Church is constituted without mutual consent of the Pastor and the flock and that the Rulers alter not or violate not Christs Laws by which he hath appointed the ordering of Assemblies; Therefore it is the Rulers Office to hinder the people from doing mischief, without hindering them from their duty and from doing well; To Govern them in their work, and not to forbid it.
2. If the Gospel be hid (from the mind though not from the Ear) it is hid to them that are lost 2. Cor. 4. 3. And without holiness none shall see God Heb. 12, 14. Christ will ⟨p. 89⟩come in flaming Fire to render vengeance to them that know not God and obey not the Gospel, 2. Thes. 1. 10. 11. All they shall be damned that obey not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness