A26965:423
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
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.
6. It was a Vow to God, as well as a Covenant with men (as the words show.)
6. It was a Vow to God, as well as a Covenant with men (as the words shew.)
7. The Controversy is not, 1. Whether it ⟨p. 143⟩was Lawfully Imposed, 2. Or whether it was Lawfully Taken, 3. Or whether it bind as a League, 4. Nor whether it bind to any unlawful thing (which all renounce) But, 5. Whether as a Vow made to God, it bind to things necessary (as against Schism, Profaneness, Popery: to Repent, &c.) to which men were before bound by other obligations. Nor whether they that took it not be bound by it to repent, &c. but whether no one person in the three Kingdoms, who took it, be so bound: And that since the Scots drew his Majesty to seem to own it (which we judge they did unlawfully.)
7. The Controversie is not, 1. Whether it ⟨p. 143⟩was Lawfully Imposed, 2. Or whether it was Lawfully Taken, 3. Or whether it bind as a League, 4. Nor whether it bind to any unlawful thing (which all renounce) But, 5. Whether as a Vow made to God, it bind to things necessary (as against Schism, Profaneness, Popery: to Repent, &c.) to which men were before bound by other obligations. Nor whether they that took it not be bound by it to repent, &c. but whether no one person in the three Kingdoms, who took it, be so bound: And that since the Scots drew his Majesty to seem to own it (which we judge they did unlawfully.)