A26965:574
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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4. But that reason seemeth null and vain; 1. Because the Apocrypha is no part of the Book to which we must Profess Assent, Approbation and Consent, nor to which by the Canon we must ex animo subscribe, that there is nothing in it contrary to the Word of God. But Athanasius's Creed, with those damnatory sentences, are part of that Book. Indeed the Liturgy requireth us to read those Apocryphal untruths, but they are no part of the Book: 2. And it being not the sense of the Liturgy, but of a Statute of Parliament, which we here doubt of, it seemeth insufficient, if not impertinent, to tell us what is taken for the sense of the Church; for the doubt is What is the sense of the Parliament, which we can no otherwise know but by the plain words, till they will otherwise declare their meaning.
5. And indeed if the passages in Tobit, which some Reverend Bishops call Lies (about the ⟨p. 192⟩Angel's saying that he was the Son of Ananias, of the Tribe of Naphtali, and the fishes driving away all Devils, that they shall never return) were but to be read, we know not how to approve of that Law, Calendar or Rubric, that commandeth such reading of them. But yet that is much less than the Assent required to Athanasius's Creed; which yet we take (save those damnatory sentences) to be the best explication of the Mystery of the sacred Trinity, which in so short a sum is extant in the Church.
5. And indeed if the passages in Tobit, which some Reverend Bishops call Lies (about the ⟨p. 192⟩Angel's saying that he was the Son of Ananias, of the Tribe of Napthali, and the fishes driving away all Devils, that they shall never return) were but to be read, we know not how to approve of that Law, Calendar or Rubrick, that commandeth such reading of them. But yet that is much less than the Assent required to Athanasius's Creed; which yet we take (save those damnatory sentences) to be the best explication of the Mystery of the sacred Trinity, which in so short a summe is extant in the Church.