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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.
III. It is certain that most great Parishes, especially in Cities and great Towns, have more souls which call for Ministerial help, than Conformists and Nonconformists, if they lovingly joined, are able well to afford necessary help to.
III. It is certain that most great Parishes, especially in Cities and great Towns, have more souls which call for Ministerial help, than Conformists and Nonconformists, if they lovingly joyned, are able well to afford necessary help to.
IV. The Ministers that dwell in Cities or Corporations, when they were cast out, did quietly surrender Temples and Tithes: But many of their people claimed the continuance of their Relation and Ministry; and many professed that they could not trust their souls to the Pastoral guidance and care of many of those who were placed in the Temples in their stead; and charged the neglect of their souls on such as refused.
IV. The Ministers that dwell in Cities or Corporations, when they were cast out, did quietly surrender Temples and Tythes: But many of their people claimed the continuance of their Relation and Ministry; and many professed that they could not trust their souls to the Pastoral guidance and care of many of those who were placed in the Temples in their stead; and charged the neglect of their souls on such as refused.
V. The Bills of Mortality show us that the 7 Parishes within the walls of London are not the seventh part of the whole, including all the outer Parishes: And of the 97 there were very few Churches left unburned; and there are but few that are yet built up; and instead of many, there are small Tabernacles, and instead of others nothing: And the outer Parishes are mostly so great, as that the Temples will hold but a small part of the people: It is conjectured by the Inhabitants, that in Martins Parish are about threescore thousand souls, and in Stepney and Giles's Cripplegate, each about fifty thousand, and in Giles's in the Fields between 20000 and 30000, and in Clements Danes, Margarets Westminster,