A26965:399
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.
28 At this time the Lord Chancellor as a token of His Majesties Gracious favour and acceptance, offered Bishoprics to three that then treated for Reconciliation, and Deanries to two or three of them. Of the three first, one did the next day save one refuse it, but in a letter to him professing his gratitude, and that he was so rejoiced in His Majesties Gracious Declaration, that if it might but be settled by Law, he resolved to use his utmost endeavours to persuade all men to conformity on those terms, and therefore would not disable himself thereto by taking a Bishopric, and making men think that it was not for just concord, but his own interest that he wrote or pleaded: Another of them soon accepted: The third and the two or three that had Deanries offered them, only suspended till they saw whether His Majesties Declaration would live or dye.
28 At this time the Lord Chancellor as a token of His Majesties Gracious favour and acceptance, offered Bishopricks to three that then treated for Reconciliation, and Deanries to two or three of them. Of the three first, one did the next day save one refuse it, but in a letter to him professing his gratitude, and that he was so rejoiced in His Majesties Gracious Declaration, that if it might but be setled by Law, he resolved to use his utmost endeavours to perswade all men to conformity on those terms, and therefore would not disable himself thereto by taking a Bishoprick, and making men think that it was not for just concord, but his own interest that he wrote or pleaded: Another of them soon accepted: The third and the two or three that had Deanries offered them, only suspended till they saw whether His Majesties Declaration would live or dye.
29. what was done in the next attempt upon His Majesties Commission to agree on such alterations of the Liturgy as were necessary to tender Consciences, &c. we are to make no further mention of, then is made by the writings given, in which some body shortly after (in part and with many false printings) published; An Addition to the Liturgy, A Reply to some former Papers of the Bishops, and an Earnest Petition to them for the Churches Peace, which were given in and never answered by them (that we know of) some one printed. And being in writing required by a Right reverend Bishop then in the Chair, as from superiors to lay by mere