A26965:554
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 are not agreed of the sense ⟨p. 188⟩of these words: One sort of them say, that all these words import not the salvation of the person: But the rest have more ingenuity, and confess that else the words are not intelligible, and that such equivocation is not tolerable.
3. Some of them say that these passages are good, supposing Discipline well exercised; which if it be not, it is not the fault of the Liturgy. But others consider that 1. We know that Discipline is not so exercised as they suppose: 2. And that these passages are not to be approved and used whether Discipline be so exercised or not: The meaning is not [I approve of this where Discipline is well exercised.] 3. It is known that the Bishops will not have every Priest to be Judge.
4. The Canon (which is the work of the same Church) thus expoundeth the Churches meaning; Can. 14. [All Ministers shall observe the Orders, Rites and Ceremonies prescribed in the Book of Common-Prayer, as well in reading the holy Scriptures, and saying of Prayers, as in administration of the Sacraments, without either diminishing in regard of Preaching, or in any other respect; or adding any thing in the matter or form thereof.] (This also concerneth most of the cases before instanced in, as Expositions of the Churches meaning.)