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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.
And now as the best Philosophers think that experiments de facto must be premised to the Theory, so we think this touch of history must be considered by them that think Jewish High Priesthood, or National, Patriarchal or Metropolitical superiority is the necessary means of the Churches Concord: Let them compare the dissentions caused by little village Bishops and synods for mere Concord, yea or by separating heady people, with these which Patriarchal and Metropolitical seats have caused, and they will appear to be to them but as a scuffle at Billingsgate to the French Wars: And yet we have instanced but in the best times of dominion, in comparison of which Councils, Prelates and later times have been a mere hurricane. In a word, they that think that the mischiefs of superior seats are greater than the benefits, do appeal to all Church history, whether they have not been the true and principal causes of the distractions of the Christian world, and of the long division of the East and West, and of many civil and grievous wars.
And now as the best Philosophers think that experiments de facto must be premised to the Theory, so we think this touch of history must be considered by them that think Jewish High Priesthood, or National, Patriarchal or Metropolitical superiority is the necessary means of the Churches Concord: Let them compare the dissentions caused by little village Bishops and synods for meer Concord, yea or by separating heady people, with these which Patriarchall and Metropolitical seats have caused, and they will appear to be to them but as a scuffle at Billinsgate to the French Wars: And yet we have instanced but in the best times of dominion, in comparison of which Councils, Prelates and later times have been a meer hurricane. In a word, they that think that the mischiefs of superiour seats are greater than the benefits, do appeal to all Church history, whether they have not been the true and principal causes of the distractions of the Christian world, and of the long division of the East and West, and of many civil and grievous wars.
§ 40. And to the objections they say, I. As to Appeals and Government of Inferiors, 1. That the last appeals have ever been made to General Councils: And how they went when ever the ⟨p. 290⟩