A26965:845
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.
had they seen in the way of Church-pride and tyranny, not here a leg, and there an arm, but here a hundred carcasses, and there a thousand; here two thousand godly faithful Preachers silenced, and many thousand dry Vines planted in their rooms, and there whole Kingdoms interdicted, and their Churches shut up; here Churches and Kingdoms turned into confusions about a word, or about the interest of Prelates, striving which should be the Chief, and have their will and rule the rest; and there hundred thousands murdered in the name of Christ, for obeying him, and bloody wars managed by the Clergy against Christian Emperors, and Kings stabbed one after another; and most of the Christian world, Roman, Greek, Muscovites, Armenians, Abassines, degenerated into doleful ignorance and dead formality under the Government of great High-Priests, and millions of the vulgar bred up in ignorance and senselessness of spiritual and eternal things; this should stop them, (at least from serving ⟨p. 303⟩the master of such designs) as much as a leg, or an arm in the way.
had they seen in the way of Church-pride and tyranny, not here a leg, and there an arm, but here a hundred carkasses, and there a thousand; here two thousand godly faithful Preachers silenced, and many thousand dry Vines planted in their rooms, and there whole Kingdoms interdicted, and their Churches shut up; here Churches and Kingdoms turned into confusions about a word, or about the interest of Prolates, striving which should be the Chief, and have their will and rule the rest; and there hundred thousands murdered in the name of Christ, for obeying him, and bloody wars managed by the Clergy against Christian Emperours, and Kings stabbed one after another; and most of the Christian world, Roman, Greek, Moscovites, Armenians, Abassines, degenerated into doleful ignorance and dead formality under the Government of great High-Priests, and millions of the vulgar bred up in ignorance and senslesness of spiritual and eternal things; this should stop them, (at least from serving ⟨p. 303⟩the master of such designs) as much as a leg, or an arm in the way.