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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
Section 7 › Part 1: 1. Matters of Fact to be foreknown, to the true understanding of the Cause.
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.
2. The sad eruption of this difference among the Exiles at Frankford while Dr. Cox and Mr. Horn and their party, strove for the English Liturgy, and the other party strove against it for the freer way, is at large reported in a book called the troubles at Frankford.
2. The sad eruption of this difference among the Exiles at Frankford while Dr. Cox and Mr. Horn and their party, strove for the English Liturgie, and the other party strove against it for the freer way, is at large reported in a book called the troubles at Frankford.
3. Queen Elizabeth and King James discountenancing and suppressing the Nonconformists, they attempted in Northamptonshire and Warwickshire a little while to have set and kept up private Churches and governed them in the Presbyterian way; But that attempt was soon broken and frustrate by the industry of Bishop Whitguift and Bancroft: And the Nonconformists lived according to their various opportunities: some of them conformed: some were by connivance permitted in peculiars and small impropriate places, or Chapels that had little maintenance, in the public Ministry, which kept them from gathering secret Churches: some of them had this liberty a great part of their lives, as Mr. Hildersham, Mr. Dod, Mr. Hering, Mr. Paget, Mr. Midsley senior and junior, Mr. Langley, Mr. Slater, and Mr. Ash at Birmingham Mr. Tailor, Mr. Pateman, Mr. Paul Bath, Mr. Fox of Tewksbury, John Fox, and many more. Some had this liberty all their lives, as Mr. Knewstubs, Dr. Chadderton, Dr. Reignolds Dr. Humphrey, Mr. Perkins, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Geeree, Mr. Root, Mr. Atkins Mr. Gilpin, John Rogers and many others: some were fain to shift up and down by hiding themselves, and by flight, and these preached sometimes secretly in the houses where they were, and sometime publicly for a day and away, where they could be admitted: so did Mr. Parker, Mr. Bradshaw, Mr. Nicols, Mr. Brightman, Mr. Brumskil, Mr. Humphrey Fen, Mr. Sutchff, Mr. Thomas, and many more; and after their silencing Mr▪ Cotton, Mr. Hooker, and many more that went to America, Mr. Cartwright was ⟨p. 122⟩