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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.
11. We take it for Arrogance and Fanaticism in the Pope and his Council to pretend Infallible certainty by a peculiar privilege, in those points in which they are unstudied and unlearned, as if they knew them by prophetical inspiration. And when young unstudied men have in this point attained to an [undoubted certainty] which their wiser seniors cannot attain, it behoveth them to convince us of the truth of their Inspiration or special endowments, either by a proportionable excellency above us in other things, or by some Miracles or Testimonies from Heaven.
11. We take it for Arrogance and Fanaticism in the Pope and his Council to pretend Infallible certainty by a peculiar priviledge, in those points in which they are unstudyed and unlearned, as if they knew them by prophetical inspiration. And when young unstudyed men have in this point attained to an [undoubted certainty] which their wiser seniors cannot attain, it behoveth them to convince us of the truth of their Inspiration or special endowments, either by a proportionable excellency above us in other things, or by some Miracles or Testimonies from Heaven.
12. There is no one Word of God cited in the Rubric which tells us that It is certain by the Word of God.
12. There is no one Word of God cited in the Rubrick which tells us that It is certain by the Word of God.
13. Among Christian Divines there are all these various opinions about the salvation of Infants.