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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.
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.
10. The dreadfulness of this Massacre (so far exceeding the French) & the news sent over that the Irish said that they had the Kings Commission and the foregoing jealousies of the people and the Parliaments Declarations, raised in multitudes of the people a fear that the Irish when they had ended their work there would come over hither and do the like; and that they had partakers in England of whom we were in danger, and that there was no way of safety but to adhere to the Parliament for their own defence, or else it ⟨p. 126⟩would quickly be too late to complain.
11. In 1642. the lamentable Civil War brake out: At which time as far as ever we could learn by acquaintance with some of them and report of others, excepting an inconsiderable number, the Houses of Lords and Commons consisted of those that had still lived in conformity to the Church of England and the Episcopal Government and were such Conformists as Dr. Heylin describeth Archbishop Abbot and the Clergy and Parliaments of his times to have been, Crying out of the danger of a new party, that said they would shake our Religion, Liberties and Property. And such were they when the War began, Presbytery being then little known among them.
11. In 1642. the lamentable Civil Warr brake out: At which time as far as ever we could learn by acquaintance with some of them and report of others, excepting an inconsiderable number, the Houses of Lords and Commons consisted of those that had still lived in conformity to the Church of England and the Episcopal Government and were such Conformists as Dr. Heylin describeth Archbishop Abbot and the Clergy and Parliaments of his times to have been, Crying out of the danger of a new partie, that said they would shake our Religion, Liberties and Property. And such were they when the War began, Presbytery being then little known among them.