A26965:360
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.
Obj. But suppose it a doubtful case, and one party take consenting to be a sin, and the other part and the greater take it to be none, If you may preach on because you think that you are in the right, then no Heretic should be silenced.
Obj. But suppose it a doubtful case, and one party take consenting to be a sin, and the other part and the greater take it to be none, If you may preach on because you think that you are in the right, then no Heretick should be silenced.
Ans. This was answered before 1. If men will ⟨p. 117⟩still thus confound the scire and the esse, or put the scire before the esse, they may go on in error, and no reason can silence them. The thing is really first true or false, before it is known or thought so to be; If it be true, then he that thinketh it false is the delinquent. If it be a sin, it is not mens taking it for no sin, that will make it so, nor disoblige the orthodox from their Ministry. But if it be no sin that is Commanded the Nonconsenters are in the fault. And if it be a Heresy which they stand for, may be silenced.
Ans. This was answered before 1. If men will ⟨p. 117⟩still thus confound the scire and the esse, or put the scire before the esse, they may go on in errour, and no reason can silence them. The thing is realy first true or false, before it is known or thought so to be; If it be true, then he that thinketh it false is the delinquent. If it be a sin, it is not mens taking it for no sin, that will make it so, nor disoblige the orthodox from their Ministry. But if it be no sin that is Commanded the Nonconsenters are in the fault. And if it be a Heresie which they stand for, may be s•lenced.