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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.
22. This last sort of men beginning in Worcest:-shire set on foot a work of reconciling ⟨p. 131⟩Association, in which the Episcopal, Presbyterians and Independents, agreed to practise so much of Church Government and Ministration as they were all agreed in, with mutual Love and assisting concord, and to forbear one another in the rest, till God should bring us nearer. (And after they added another Agreement, to Catechise every person in their Parishes old and young, that would come to them, or receive them thereto; and personally to instruct and exhort them about the practicals of Religion, and preparation for death and the life to come) This example was presently followed by the Ministers in Cumberland and Westmorland, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, and going on in other Counties, till the confusions 1659 interrupted it, and the return of the Prelacy ended it and many such endeavours.
22. This last sort of men beginning in Worcest:-shire set on foot a work of reconciling ⟨p. 131⟩Association, in which the Episcopal, Presbyterians and Independants, agreed to practise so much of Church Government and Ministration as they were all agreed in, with mutual Love and assisting concord, and to forbear one another in the rest, till God should bring us neerer. (And after they added another Agreement, to Catechise every person in their Parishes old and young, that would come to them, or receive them thereto; and personally to instruct and exhort them about the practicals of Religion, and preparation for death and the life to come) This example was presently followed by the Ministers in Cumberland and Westmorland, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Essex, and going on in other Counties, till the confusions 1659 interrupted it, and the return of the Prelacie ended it and many such endeavours.
23. When Oliver was dead, many sorts of Government were set up in one year: First his son Richard (who having never been in Arms, and being famed to be for the King, many thought he would have been ready, when he could, to resign the Kingdom to him, and spoke him fair on that account, and others because they thought he would quiet the violent, and keep out utter confusion:) After his ejection the Remnant of the Commons called the Commonwealth was restored. After this they were cast out again, and a Council of State Chosen by the Army; till the Kingdom grew to scorn them all, and was weary and ashamed of the confusions, and revived their designs to restore the King.