A26965:486
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.
3. These Books are to be read just in the place and order as the Sacred Scriptures are; and under the same title of the [First Lesson] Only called Apocrypha in the Bibles. But 1. It is not appointed that the Priest tell the people so: 2. If it were, they understand not Commonly what ⟨p. 167⟩[Apocrypha] signifieth: 3. If they were sometime told it, they forget it; and apply not that name to every Lesson that they thence hear. 4. It is not denied that the sounder Books that are Apocrypha may be read in the Church as a Homily may be with due notice of their difference from the Canonical Books: But the question is whether not only they, but the Books proved fabulous by many Protestants, may be there read, and that instead of so much of the holy Scripture then omitted, and that without any better notice given to the Common people of the difference. 5. And the chief doubt is, whether this may not only be done, but also the Calendar as so appointing it, may be Approved of and Consented to by us all.
3. These Books are to be read just in the place and order as the Sacred Scriptures are; and under the same title of the [First Lesson] Only called Apocrypha in the Bibles. But 1. It is not appointed that the Priest tell the people so: 2. If it were, they understand not Commonly what ⟨p. 167⟩[Apocrypha] signifieth: 3. If they were sometime told it, they forget it; and apply not that name to every Lesson that they thence hear. 4. It is not denyed that the sounder Books that are Apocrypha may be read in the Church as a Homily may be with due notice of their difference from the Canonical Books: But the question is whether not only they, but the Books proved fabulous by many Protestants, may be there read, and that instead of so much of the holy Scripture then omitted, and that without any better notice given to the Common people of the difference. 5. And the chief doubt is, whether this may not only be done, but also the Calendar as so appointing it, may be Approved of and Consented to by us all.