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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. Where they are young raw men, or ignorant of such matters, unable to counsel people as their necessities require, in order to their salvation; and perhaps to do it tolerably in a public Sermon.
4. Where they are young raw men, or ignorant of such matters, unable to counsel people as their necessities require, in order to their salvation; and perhaps to do it tolerably in a publick Sermon.
5. Where they are so profane and malignant, that if poor people come to them with cases of conscience, or for counsel what they must do to be saved, they will but deride them as scrupulous and precise, and make them believe that to be solicitous about salvation, and afraid of sinning, and seriously godly, is but to be Hypocrites, melancholy or mad; And perhaps bend their Preaching the same way.
5. Where they are so prophane and malignant, that if poor people come to them with cases of conscience, or for counsel what they must do to be saved, they will but deride them as scrupulous and precise, and make them believe that to be solicitous about salvation, and afraid of sinning, and seriously godly, is but to be Hypocrites, melancholy or mad; And perhaps bend their Preaching the same way.
6. When they are Heretical and not to be trusted in point of faith.