A26965:731
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.
XXV. Before this, many Ministers had offered thankfully to accept the Liberty of Preaching in the Parish Churches where the Liturgy is used, and being present at it: And some to this day that live in the Country, where they can get so much favour, preach in the Parish-Churches, and join in the Liturgy, and draw others to it, and go from place to place thus to avoid being taken.
XXV. Before this, many Ministers had offered thankfully to accept the Liberty of Preaching in the Parish Churches where the Liturgy is used, and being present at it: And some to this day that live in the Country, where they can get so much favour, preach in the Parish-Churches, and joyn in the Liturgy, and draw others to it, and go from place to place thus to avoid being taken.
XXVI. Many, seeing how we were thus driven not only from Preaching, but such Parish-Communion, were tempted to hard thoughts of such affairs, as if it came from the Papists, who would have equalled, and massed us up with themselves.
XXVI. Many, seeing how we were thus driven not only from Preaching, but such Parish-Communion, were tempted to hard thoughts of such affairs, as if it came from the Papists, who would have equalled, and mass'd us up with themselves.
XXVII. Shortly after this, the Kings Clemency saw cause to make an alteration and to give us his gracious indulgence by his Licenses for places and persons; Upon this, Ministers boldly set up Chapels under the Parish Churches; and in all the time of this their Liberty, when there were witnesses enough, if they had offended, we remember not that any were ever convict of any word of seditious or unsound doctrine, or any unpeaceable attempts. But while they had this leave to Preach themselves, they thought best to