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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
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5. The Nonconformists differ about the Surplice; some taking it to be Lawful, and others to be unlawful: But they Commonly hold that Preaching Christs Gospel is commanded by God, and that Ministers by their ordination are obliged to do the work of that Office, and that Surplices are not commanded by God; and therefore, if a man mistakingly should take the use of the Surplice to be sinful, he should not therefore be ejected and silenced: And therefore they dare not declare Approbation and Consent to the Rubric ⟨p. 191⟩or subscribed form in the Canon which implieth this restraint.
5. The Nonconformists differ about the Surplice; some taking it to be Lawful, and others to be unlawful: But they Commonly hold that Preaching Christs Gospel is commanded by God, and that Ministers by their ordination are obliged to do the work of that Office, and that Surplices are not commanded by God; and therefore, if a man mistakingly should take the use of the Surplice to be sinful, he should not therefore be ejected and silenced: And therefore they dare not declare Approbation and Consent to the Rubrick ⟨p. 191⟩or subscribed form in the Canon which implyeth this restraint.
XIX. The Damnatory sentences in the Creed called Athanasius's, are to be Assented, Approved and Consented to.
2. If they referred but to the Doctrine of the Trinity, and not to the particulars of that explication, it would not be excepted against: But some R. Reverend Conformists do profess that those sentences are untrue, and not to be approved.