A26965:741
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.
XXXV. It is very ordinary with Gentlemen and others that are zealous for the present Church State in London, to go from their own Parishes, though the Canon be against it: so that it is not, sure, the breach of the Canon that they stick at.
XXXVI. We shall never dissuade men from making the strictest Laws to punish any Nonconformist that shall be proved guilty of Sedition, Disloyalty, Drunkenness, Fornication, Swearing, and any other immorality; but we know of none of them that was silenced, ejected, or punished on any such account: Nay, if they Preach against their Church Government, Liturgy, or Ceremonies, we must expect that they should be restrained. Our earnest desire is, that the Magistrate would keep up Peace and Order in the Church, that Popish Clergy men may not think that it belongeth to them alone to do it.
XXXVI. We shall never disswade men from making the strictest Laws to punish any Nonconformist that shall be proved guilty of Sedition, Disloyalty, Drunkenness, Fornication, Swearing, and any other immorality; but we know of none of them that was silenced, ejected, or punished on any such account: Nay, if they Preach against their Church Government, Liturgy, or Ceremonies, we must expect that they should be restrained. Our earnest desire is, that the Magistrate would keep up Peace and Order in the Church, that Popish Clergy men may not think that it belongeth to them alone to do it.
XXXVII. Whereas there is a sort of ignorant or ill meaning men, that still say [we know not what the Nonconformists would have, and why will they not tell us what would satisfy them,] While ⟨p. 248⟩