A26965:673
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.
II. It is agreed that our Ministerial sins, which we do as if they were part of our Office in the public Assemblies, have a special aggravation differing from mens secret personal crimes.
II. It is agreed that our Ministorial sins, which we do as if they were part of our Office in the publick Assemblies, have a special aggravation differing from mens secret personal crimes.
III. It is agreed that Lying and Perjury are sins of so heinous a nature, as that they tend to overthrow humane trust and converse, and all Societies, and deprive Princes of part of the security due to them for their lives and Crowns: And that in a Preacher of the Gospel they are intolerable, tending to tempt the hearers to believe nothing that we say.
III. It is agreed that Lying and Perjury are sins of so heinous a nature, as that they tend to overthrow humane trust and converse, and all Societies, and deprive Princes of part of the security due to them for their lives and Crowns: And that in a Preacher of the Gospel they are intollerable, tending to tempt the hearers to believe nothing that we say.
IV. It is agreed that by assertion to absolve thousands of persons known or unknown, and justify them, if they should prove guilty of such a crime, and so to draw on our selves the guilt of many thousand perjuries, would be a sin of as heinous a nature as most we can imagine.
IV. It is agreed that by assertion to absolve thousands of persons known or unknown, and justifie them, if they should prove guilty of such a crime, and so to draw on our selves the guilt of many thousand perjuries, would be a sin of as heinous a nature as most we can imagine.