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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.
6. When they are Heretical and not to be trusted in point of faith.
7. And when they are so Factious and Schismatical, as that their Preaching and Conference tendeth to render other good Christians odious, and stir up men to hate, persecute, or separate from them, and so to destroy true Love and Concord.
In any of these cases when the people or part of them are deprived of that Pastoral helps which their necessity requireth, and God commandeth, they may seek it where they can best have it.
LXIII. In all these cases it is an unsatisfactory Answer to tell them that Religion is kept up in the land, and that other persons or Parishes have what they want, or that Order and Obedience must be preferred to their supply, or that God can save them without a Pastor, &c. For so God can save the Heathen world without the Gospel Preached if he please: And so you might persuade the Poor to famish, rather than against Law to beg; because if thousands of them dye of Famine, yet other people are supplied, and have plenty: Or you might tell men that they must use no Physician, though they dye for it, if they have no tolerable one allowed them by the Magistrate, because others have Physicians though they dye for want of them.