A26965:435
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.
10. All such undertakers that we have known have been of some of these following sorts: 1. Either g•orant persons that knew not, or careless that considered not what they did: 2. Or persons that mist••k the sense of the Church, and thought that they were but the representers of the Parents, and that what they promised, it was not th•y▪ but the Parents that were bound to perform: 3. Or Nonconformists (in this point) who purposed before hand to be but the Parents Representatives, and that the promise and obligation should all be devolved from them on the Parents, though they knew the Church meant otherwise; and that they were not bound to the Churches sense; and therefore their standing to hear [this is your part] was no consent to take it for their part. And none of all these do answer the Churches sense in their undertaking: And if we are commonly baptized and made Christians in a way of false Vowing or Covenanting of such persons, or of ••lus••y Equivocation, it is not well.
10. All such undertakers that we have known have been of some of these following sorts: 1. Either g•orant persons that knew not, or careless that considered not what they did: 2. Or persons that mist••k the sense of the Church, and thought that they were but the representers of the Parents, and that what they promised, it was not th•y▪ but the Parents that were bound to perform: 3. Or Nonconformists (in this point) who purposed before hand to be but the Parents R•p•esentatives, and that the promise and obligation should all be devolved from them on the Parents, though they knew the Church meant otherwise; and that they were not bound to the Churches sense; and therefore their standing to hear [this is your part] was no consent to take it for their part. And none of all these do answer the Churches sense in their undertaking: And if we are commonly baptized and made Christians in a way of false Vowing or Covenanting of such persons, or of lusy Equvocation, it is not well.