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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.
1 God hath commanded his servants to beware of false or pretended Prophets, and told us how to know them, by the hurtful fruits of thorns and thistles: And Paul adviseth the Galatians, Colossians, &c. earnestly to beware of unsound Teachers; and the Churches that had those that taught people to eat things offered to Idols, &c. are threatened: And God commendeth those that tried false Apostles, and found them Liars: Therefore the people in such cases as those have a trying judgment, in order to their practice. And Paul warneth the Romans to mark those that cause divisions and offences (or scandals) and avoid them as not serving Jesus Christ but their bellies; and the forenamed crimes are scandals.
1 God hath commanded his servants to beware of false or pretended Prophets, and told us how to know them, by the hurtful fruits of thorns and thistles: And Paul adviseth the Galatians, Colossians, &c. earnestly to beware of unsound Teachers; and the Churches that had those that taught people to eat things offered to Idols, &c. are threatned: And God commendeth those that tryed false Apostles, and found them Lyars: Therefore the people in such cases as those have a trying judgment, in order to their practice. And Paul warneth the Romans to mark those that cause divisions and offences (or scandals) and avoid them as not serving Jesus Christ but their bellies; and the forenamed crimes are scandals.
2. God hath commanded men to know, love, and imitate godly Pastors, Heb. 13. 7, 17. 24. 1 Thes. 5▪ 12, 13. 1 Tim▪ 5. 17, &c. And he hath given no man power to set such criminals over them as their Pastors, and so far to deprive them of the means of salvation as to confine them to them.