A26965:464
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.
2. The Conformists themselves are not agreed of the meaning of these plain words, One party expounding them as the Nonconformists do, according to the properest and ordinary use of the words, and the other party otherwise. The former hold that as many Acts of Parliament Contain more in the body of the Act than in the Title, and make the means more extensive than the end, so here the ASSENT and CONSENT to the USE of the Book is the END in the first clause, and APPROBATION also in the second: And that the Declaring that form of words is the Means to that end: That ⟨p. 159⟩Assent signifieth Assent to the Truth] and [Consent and Approbation] relate to the Goodness, rectitude and use] And that this is not only of the Prayers and other parts which the subscriber is to Read to the people but as is expressed [of all things (without exception] Contained in and prescribed by it; particularly▪ to all the Prayers, Rites, Ceremonies, Forms and Orders;] without collusion or equivocation.
2. The Conformists themselves are not agreed of the meaning of these plain words, One party expounding them as the Nonconformists do, according to the properest and ordinary use of the words, and the other party otherwise. The former hold that as many Acts of Parliament Contein more in the body of the Act than in the Title, and make the means more extensive than the end, so here the ASSENT and CONSENT to the USE of the Book is the END in the first clause, and APPROBATION also in the second: And that the Declaring that form of words is the Means to that end: That ⟨p. 159⟩Assent signifieth Assent to the Truth] and [Consent and Approbation] relate to the Goodness, rectitude and use] And that this is not only of the Prayers and other parts which the subscriber is to Read to the people but as is exprest [of all things (without exception] Conteined in and prescribed by it; particularly▪ to all the Prayers, Rites, Ceremonies, Forms and Orders;] without collusion or equivocation.