A26965:637
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.
SECT. XII.
The Fourth Part of Conformity.
IV. THE Fourth Part of Conformity is the Subscription against the obligation of the Oath called the Solemn Vow and Covenant. Corporations are constituted by Declaring, that there is no obligation from it to any one without exception: But Ministers must only subscribe that there is no obligation on me, or on any other person, from the Oath,—to endeavour any change or alteration of Government in the Church.]
2. It is none of the Controversy here, 1. Whether that vow was lawfully imposed or contrived, 2. Nor whether it were lawfully taken. 3. Nor whether part of the matter was unlawful. But supposing all these unlawful, 1. Whether all alteration of Church Government be unlawful? whether it be not in the power of the King and Parliament, to set a Bishop in every Market Town: or to take the use of the Keys from Laymen: or to take down Archdeacons, Officials, Commissaries. Surrogates, &c? Whether all Reformation be out of the power of the King, or not to be desired by the people? ⟨p. 212⟩