A26965:759
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.
§ 11. We justly maintain against the Anabaptists, that Infants relation to the Covenant, and the universal Church (as members) was not repealed by Christ, because it was not founded only on the Law of Moses: which if it had, it were as such repealed
§ 12. The Holy Ghost by the Apostles Acts 15. hath declared to all the Churches of the Gentiles that they are not bound to keep the Law of Moses, and hath absolved us from all, saving things antecedently, and on other reasons necessary. verse. 28.
§ 13 If the Jews form of Government be ours, then the High-Priest must have the power of the Sword, or sit in judgment for life or death, as Deut. 17. 12, 13. and other places show: But many Papists and Protestants are agreed that the clergy have no power of the Sword, or force, unless the King make them also Magistrates.
§ 13 If the Jews form of Government be ours, then the High-Priest must have the power of the Sword, or sit in judgment for life or death, as Deut. 17. 12, 13. and other places shew: But many Papists and Protestants are agreed that the clergy have no power of the Sword, or force, unless the King make them also Magistrates.