A26965:725
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.
XIX. These two great and notorious necessities succeeding in those two dreadful years 1665 1666. calling the Nonconformable Ministers out of their retirements, and latitant and silent state, resolved them to serve God more diligently and openly than they had done, whatever it cost them: And many Country Ministers were awakened to the like by the examples of those in London: Though yet a great number who are in places of less need, or not called out as aforesaid, still lie much silent.
XX. WHILE THE DREADFUL FIRE WAS WASTING LONDON and OTHER CORPORATIONS, THE PARLIAMENT and BISHOPS WERE AT OXFORD MAKING AN OATH TO DRIVE ALL NONCONFORMISTS ABOVE FIVE MILES FROM ALL CITIES and CORPORATIONS that send Burgesses ⟨p. 239⟩to Parliament, and all other places where ever they had Preached since the act of oblivion. So that, had they obeyed the Laws, London had been deserted in the Plague and in the ruins, and few people suffered publicly to worship God: At the mention of which the heart of the writer of this trembleth; especially to think how much further the Bishops went in this then the Synod of Ithacius and Idacius went, from which Martin separated to the death by Gods miraculous instruction.
XX. WHILE THE DREADFUL FIRE WAS WASTING LONDON and OTHER CORPORATIONS, THE PARLIAMENT and BISHOPS WERE AT OXFORD MAKING AN OATH TO DRIVE ALL NONCONFORMISTS ABOVE FIVE MILES FROM ALL CITIES and CORPORATIONS that send Burgesses ⟨p. 239⟩to Parliament, and all other places where ever they had Preached since the act of oblivion. So that, had they obeyed the Laws, London had been deserted in the Plague and in the ruines, and few people suffered publickly to worship God: At the mention of which the heart of the writer of this trembleth; especially to think how much further the Bishops went in this then the Synod of Ithacius and Idacius went, from which Martin separated to the death by Gods miraculous instruction.