A26965:408
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.
and that the main body of the Parliament, Assembly, Army, Commanders, Lord Lieutenants, Major Generals of Brigades, and Sea-Captains, were professed Conformists of the Church of England. 11. Lastly, We had hoped that His Majesties prudence had by the Act of Oblivion long since ended this part of the Contention; but we find still some conformable Ministers ⟨p. 139⟩whom in other respects we much esteem and love, who (as if Truth, Charity, Justice and Humanity had been forgotten by them) affirm in print that All the Nonconformists were guilty of the King's Death; passing over what is aforesaid of the Conformists; and others of them crying out to Magistrates to execute the Laws on us, by the urged Motive of their late sequestrations and sufferings: as if they knew not, or would not have others to know, how few Nonconformists in Parliament or Militia there were at the beginning of the War in comparison of the Conformists; and how much the second, third and following Causes, Parties, and Tragedies in that War, were disliked by the now Episcopal and Presbyterian Nonconformists.
and that the main body of the Parliament, Assembly, Army, Commanders, Lord Lieutenants, M•jor Generals of Bragades, and Sea-Captains, were professed Conformists of the Church of England. 11. Lastly, We had hoped that His M•jesties prudence had by the Act of Oblivion long since ended this part of the Contention; but we find still some conformable Ministers ⟨p. 139⟩whom in other respects we much esteem and love, who (as if Truth, Charity, Justice and Humanity had been forgotten by them) affirm in print that All the Nonconformists were guilty of the King's Death; passing over what is aforesaid of the Conformists; and others of them crying out to Magistrates to execute the Laws on us, by the urged Motive of their late sequestrations and sufferings: as if they knew not, or would not have others to know, how few Nonconformists in Parliament or Militia there were at the beginning of the War in comparison of the Conformists; and how much the second, third and following Causes, Parties, and Tragedies in that War, were disliked by the now Episcopal and Presbyterian Nonconformists.