A26965:733
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.
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 ⟨p. 243⟩take it at the same convenient hours that the Parish Churches meet at: Other times being so inconvenient, as that families cannot observe them without hurt. And they could not Preach, and hear in the Parish-Churches at once.
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 Chappels 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 ⟨p. 243⟩take it at the same convenient hours that the Parish Churches meet at: Other times being so inconvenient, as that families cannot observe them without hurt. And they could not Preach, and hear in the Parish-Churches at once.
XXVIII. All this while, though they had the Kings authority for their Assemblies, some Clergy men ceased not to accuse them of Schism; showing that it is the want of something else rather than the Kings authority on which they ground their accusation.
XXVIII. All this while, though they had the Kings authority for their Assemblies, some Clergy men ceased not to accuse them of Schism; shewing that it is the want of something else rather than the Kings authority on which they ground their accusation.