A26965:717
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.
XI. Even those called Independents hold (if Mr. Ph. Nyes Manuscript to that end may tell us their minds) that it is lawful to hear the public Parish Ministers, because the Magistrate may set Teachers over the People, and require them to hear them: Though they hold that the People should choose their Pastors, and that the Sacraments should be administered and received freely, and not by force. Yea such Anabaptists as Mr. Tombs (as is visible in his Book) hold that Communion with the Parish-Church is lawful, in the Word▪ Prayer, and Lords Supper.
XI. Even those called Independents hold (if Mr. Ph. Nyes Manuscript to that end may tell us their minds) that it is lawful to hear the publick Parish Ministers, because the Magistrate may set Teachers over the People, and require them to hear them: Though they hold that the People should choose their Pastors, and that the Sacraments should be administred and received freely, and not by force. Yea such Anabaptists as Mr. Tombes (as is visible in his Book) hold that Communion with the Parish-Church is lawful, in the Word▪ Prayer, and Lords Supper.
XII. We commonly hold that men unjustly excommunicated, are not thereby disobliged from public worshipping of God, and living under Pastoral oversight and Church discipline, nor are bound to endanger their own salvation by neglecting such duties, and losing such helps and privileges; and therefore must be of such Churches as they can, if they cannot be of such as they ⟨p. 235⟩would, or as are allowed by the Magistrate.
XII. We commonly hold that men unjastly excommunicated, are not thereby disobliged from publick worshiping of God, and living under Pastoral oversight and Church discipline, nor are bound to endanger their own salvation by neglecting such duties, and losing such helps and priviledges; and therefore must be of such Churches as they can, if they cannot be of such as they