A26965:734
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.
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.
XXIX. Some Nonconformists have these 17 years forborne to baptize or administer the Lords Supper, or to be Pastors of any Churches, but only Preached occasionally where the Parishes were so great, that one of ten or twenty had no room in the Church; and where some of many years had heard no public worship of God: And they have published to the people that they assembled them not to separate from the Parish Churches or their worship, but for their mere necessity, persuading none to come to hear them, but such as cannot come into the Parish Churches to hear: Yet are they accused for drawing men from the Church.
XXIX. Some Nonconformists have these 17 years forborn to baptize or administer the Lords Supper, or to be Pastors of any Churches, but only Preached occasionally where the Parishes were so great, that one of ten or twenty had no room in the Church; and where some of many years had heard no publick worship of God: And they have published to the people that they assembled them not to separate from the Parish Churches or their worship, but for their meer necessity, perswading none to come to hear them, but such as cannot come into the Parish Churches to hear: Yet are they accused for drawing men from the Church.