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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.
5. In this contention the Parliaments also involved themselves and the Majority still clave to the Majority of the Bishops and Clergy (then called the Church of England:) And in all or most Parliaments cried up Religion, Law and Propriety and the Liberty of Subjects, and cried down Arminianism, Monopolies, Connivance and Favouring of Papists, and their increase thereby; expressing by Speeches, and Remonstrances, their jealousies in all these points, till they were dissolved.
5. In this contention the Parliaments also involved themselves and the Majority still clave to the Majority of the Bishops and Clergy (then called the Church of England:) And in all or most Parliaments cried up Religion, Law and Propriety and the Liberty of Subjects, and cried down Arminianism, Monopolies, Connivence and Favouring of Papists, and their increase thereby; expressing by Speeches, and Remonstrances, their jealousies in all these points, till they were dissolved.
6. The writings of Bishop Jewel, and much more Bishop Bilson, and most of all Mr. Richard Hooker, and such as were of their mind, show us what Principles there, and then were by the ⟨p. 124⟩Laity that followed them, received. We will not recite their words, lest our intent be misunderstood; neither Bishop Bilsons instances in what cases Kings may be resisted by arms Nor Mr. Hookers that maketh Legislation the natural right of the Body politic, and governing power to be thence derived, to depend upon the Body, and to return to it by escheats, when heirs fail, and that the King is singulis Major and universis Minor, &c. (His eighth Book was in print long before Bishop Gauden published it, who yet vindicateth it to be Hookers own.)
6. The writings of Bishop Jewel, and much more Bishop Bilson, and most of all Mr. Richard Hooker, and such as were of their mind, shew us what Principles there, and then were by the ⟨p. 124⟩