A26965:361
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.
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.
And yet we will not deny, but if the generality of the Ministry obtain their liberty by some small tolerable sin or error and the sounder part be few and unnecessary in that Country, prudence obligeth them to go to some other place that needeth them, and never to exercise their Ministry where in true reason it is like to do more hurt than good.
And yet we will not deny, but if the generality of the Ministry obtain their liberty by some small tollerable sin or errour and the sounder part be few and unnecessary in that Country, •rudence obligeth them to go to some other place that needeth them, and never to excercise their Ministry where in true reason it is like to do more hurt than good.