A26965:379
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.
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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.
8. The new Liturgy then imposed on the ⟨p. 125⟩Scots, with the other changes there attempted, the designes charged on the Marq. of Hamilton, the fear of the Lords losing the Tyths, &c. which Dr. Heylin mentioneth as the causes or occasions of their arming there, with the progress thereof, and their entring 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.
9. On the 23. of October, 1641. The Irish suddenly rose, and murdered no less than two hundred thousand persons, and Dublin narrowly escaped them, of which we refer the Reader to the examinations published by Dr. Henry Jones, since a Bishop in Ireland, and to the history of Sir John Temple, and to the Earl of Orery's Answer to Mr. Welsh.