A26965:402
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.
31. They that had treated for Reconciliation foresaw what sad divisions were like to follow, if we were not healed and united; and therefore in their Petition made a solemn Protestation that nothing but the fear of sin and Gods displeasure should hinder them from Conformity, deprecating the woeful effects of the division, which could not possibly be otherwise avoided, than by some necessary abatements of the Impositions: and fore telling much that hath since come to pass, which common understanding might easily see in the Causes.
31. They that had treated for Reconciliation foresaw what sad divisions were like to follow, if we were not healed and united; and therefore in their Petition made a solemn Protestation that nothing but the fear of sin and Gods displeasure should hinder them from Conformity, deprecating the woful effects of the division, which could not possibly be otherwise avoided, than by some necessary abatements of the Impositions: and fore telling much that hath since come to pass, which common understanding might easily see in the Causes.
32. The persons that were silenced were not of one mind and measure about all the things imposed on them. 1. Some of them were ⟨p. 136⟩Episcopal, and for as much as Richard Hooker writeth for, and were against the Covenant (and never took it) and the Parliaments War, and were for the Liturgy and Ceremonies and had Conformed had these been all that had been imposed, who yet were cast out of Fellowships and Ministry: Yea some had suffered for the King, and been ruined in their patrimony, some imprisoned for him, and some had been in arms for him. 2. Besides these, and other Episcopal Nonconformists, some and very many, and we think the greatest part of any one, were such disengaged pacificators as we before mentioned about associations: 3. Some were for the Presbyterian Government, and 4. Some for that called Independent, which were comparatively but few.
32. The persons that were silenced were not of one mind and measure about all the things imposed on them. 1. Some of them were