A26965:580
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.
5. If God ask us why we did not teach our families, visit the sick, instruct ignorant neighbours, ⟨p. 194⟩study better for to discharge our Ministerial work, that we might be men of knowledge, and such like, the doubt is whether it will pass for a good answer to say, we had not time, because we must twice a day read the Common-Prayer.
XXI. Assenting, Approving and Consenting to all things, even to all forms, orders, &c. includeth the order of the Liturgy. Two Rules of the order of Prayer are commonly acknowledged 1. The nature and order of the matter to be expressed. 2. The Lords Prayer us a directory delivered by Christ.
2. The Nonconformists that think that for the main there is nothing but good contained in most of the Prayers of the Liturgy; yet think that they are greatly disordered and defective; neither formed according to the order of matter, nor of the Lords Prayer, but like an immethodical Sermon, which is unsuitable to the high subjects and honourable work of holy worship.