A26965:870
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.
II. A Letter of the famously Learned and Holy Robert Grosthead, Bishop of Lincoln, to Pope Innocent the fourth, and his Cardinals, containing the reasons of his Nonconformity to their Commands; Translated out of Matth. Paris, An. 1253. pag. 871, 872.
Saith M. Paris, In these days when the Lord Pope Innocent the 4th. had signified by his Apostolic Writings, commanding the Bishop of Lincoln that he should do somewhat which he took to be unjust, and dissonant to reason, as he frequently did to him and other English▪ Prelates; he wrote back to him in these words [Be it known to your discretion, that I devoutly and reverently, with filial affection, obey the Apostolical Precepts: And being zealous of the paternal honour, I am against and resist the things which are against the Apostolical mandates ⟨p. 321⟩For I am bound to both by Gods Commands: For the Apostolic mandates, neither are, nor can be any other, than consonant and conform to the Apostles Doctrine, and to the Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ himself, the Master and Lord of the Apostles, whose type and person the Lord Pope chiefly beareth in the Hierarchy of the Church*. For our Lord Jesus Christ himself saith, He that is not with me, is against me. But the most Divine Sanctity of the Apostolical Seat, is not, nor cannot possibly be against him (Jesus Christ) Therefore the tenor of the foresaid Letter is not consonant to the Apostolic Sanctity; but very much absonant and discordant: First, because of the super acoumulated Non obstante of that Letter, and such like, that are dispersed far and wide, not brought in by any necessity of observing the Law of Nature; whence a deluge of inconstancy, audaciousness, and procacity, immodesty, lying, deceiving, hardly believing or trusting any doth arise: And from these a deluge of innumerable vices, moving and troubling the purity of the Ghristian Religion, and the tranquility of social humane conversation.