A26965:378
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.
7. In 1637, 1638, 1639. A. Bishop Land using more severity against dissenters than had been used of late before, and the visitations more enquiring after private fasts and meetings and going out of mens own Parishes to hear, and such like, and also the Book for sports on the Lords days being necessarily to be read by all the Conformable Ministers in the Churches, and Altars, Rails and Bowing towards them being brought in, and in many places afternoon Sermons and Lectures put down, the minds of men before filled with the aforementioned jealousies, were made much more jealous than before. And after the imprisonment of some, the stigmatizing of some, and the removal of many beyond the Seas, and the death of more, the Nonconformable Ministers were reduced to the paucity before mentioned; but the minds of many people were more alienated from the later set of Bishops, and the old sort of Conformists more jealous of them, and more afraid of Popery, &c. than before.
7. In 1637, 1638, 1639. A. Bishop Land useing more severity against dissenters than had been used of late before, and the visitations more enquiring after private fasts and meetings and going out of mens own Parishes to hear, and such like, and also the Book for sports on the Lords daies being necessarily to be read by all the Conformable Ministers in the Churches, and Altars, Railes and Bowing towards them being brought in, and in many places afternoon Sermons and Lectures put down, the minds of men before filled with the aforementioned jealousies, were made much more jealous than before. And after the imprisonment of some, the stigmatizing of some, and the removall of many beyond the Seas, and the death of more, the Nonconformable Ministers were reduced to the paucity before mentioned; but the minds of many people were more alienated from the later set of Bishops, and the old sort of Conformists more jealous of them, and more afraid of Popery, &c. than before.
8. The new Liturgy then imposed on the ⟨p. 125⟩Scots, with the other changes there attempted, the designs charged on the Marq. of Hamilton, the fear of the Lords losing the Tithes, &c. which Dr. Heylin mentioneth as the causes or occasions of their arming there, with the progress thereof, and their entering into England, and the advantage thence taken by some English Lords, to advise the King to call a Parliament once and again, and the discontents and proceedings of that Parliament against the two Ministers of the King; for former things with such other matters we had rather the reader took from others, than from us. We are unwilling to be the mentioners of any more than concerneth our present cause, and the things are very commonly known.