A26965:735
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.
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.
XXX. These Ministers in these places have been prosecuted more severely than the rest, by imprisonments, fines and guards against their meetings; which induced others to Preach in the City where there seemed less need, because they found quietness no where else, and because some out of the remoter needy Parishes might come thither to them.
XXXI. Though they have lost all Ministerial maintenance, and are liable to pay 20 l. the first Sermon, and 40 l. the rest, and 20 l. for the ground ⟨p. 244⟩