A26965:747
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.
Additions: more particularly of National Churches.
§1. There are some worthy persons who plead more specially for National Churches as of Divine Institution, whose Doctrine calls us to a special consideration of it. But though some of us have oft desired it, we have not hitherto obtained any satisfaction what they mean by A National Church, or any true definition which they agree in: Some of them deride us for doubting and asking the question, and some answer it to the increase of our doubt.
§1. THere are some worthy persons who plead more specially for National Churches as of Divine Institution, whose Doctrine calls us to a special consideration of it. But though some of us have oft desired it, we have not hitherto obtained any satisfaction what they mean by A National Church, or any true definition which they agree in: Some of them deride us for doubting and asking the question, and some answer it to the increase of our doubt.
§2. It must be presupposed that we speak not of a mere Community that hath no Pastors, but strictly of a Society called by some Political, by ⟨p. 251⟩others Organized, constituted of Pastors and People mutually related; which is the ordinary sense of the word [Church.] And we must premise what being commonly agreed on, is none of our doubt or question.