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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
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.
XIV. None can deny that it is better to cherish honesty and conscience, especially about Oaths and Covenants which secure Converse and the lives of Princes, than to teach men to stretch Conscience in such matters; and to make every seared Conscience capable of the holy Ministry, preferment and honour; and a fear of such sin, to be the way to silence and ruin.
XIV. None can deny that it is better to cherish honesty and conscience, especially about Oaths and Covenants which secure Converse and the lives of Princes, than to teach men to stretch Conscience in such matters; and to make every seared Conscience capable of the holy Ministry, preferment and honour; and a fear of such sin, to be the way to silence and ruine.
XV. we agree that when Jesuits and other Papists have contracted the shame of equivocation and perfidiousness, Protestants should not partake with them, and take the shame on their religion,
XV. we agree that when Jesuites and other Papists have contracted the shame of equivocation and perfidiousness, Protestants should not partake with them, and take the shame on their religion,
XVI. It is agreed that when the Scots Covenant is so greatly decried, and the violation of the Oaths of Allegiance and other Oaths and Covenants was found necessary to the killing of the King, and other late confusions and iniquities, we should not after such warning ⟨p. 225⟩either ensnare men in unnecessary Oaths & Covenants, nor harden such men against Repentance, by doing any such thing our selves, much less by commanding it.