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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.
11. Our own Canons forbid the people to communicate with Ministers for lesser faults (as private Preaching, Sacraments, Fasts, Conventicles, or out of their own Parishes, &c.
12. Moses the Monk aforementioned, is commended by Historians, because he would not be ordained by Lucius; not because erroneous, but ⟨p. 111⟩because he had persecuted others by the countenance of Valens the Emperor: Though his persecution extended not to the silencing of thousands, or hundreds, or very many that we read of: And as is aforesaid, he chose to be ordained by banished men.
12. Moses the Monk aforementioned, is commended by Historians, because he would not be ordained by Lucius; not because erroneous, but ⟨p. 111⟩because he had persecuted others by the countenance of Valens the Emperour: Though his persecution extended not to the silencing of thousands, or hundreds, or very many that we read of: And as is aforesaid, he chose to be ordained by banished men.
13. Especially if men have no obligation to that insufficient, heretical, or ungodly Priest, but humane, because a Patron presented him, or a Magistrate imposed him, or because Parish-order (which is a humane thing of mere convenience) will else seem violated: When as the avoiding of the danger of a false Pastor, and the guilt of his sin, which by owning him may be incurred, and escaping the great loss of a faithful Pastor's guidance, when we are conscious that we greatly need it, are things of greater importance, and of Moral and Evangelical Divine obligation: In this case we cannot prove it Schism to avoid a wicked Priest: The Bishops hold it a duty to avoid a Nonconformist that hath not their License: But such a one as is foredescribed, hath not Christ's License, and is a Nonconformist to his Laws.