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A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
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.
Agapetus Diacon. ad Justinian. Adhort. cap. 35. [Episcopis vi & gladio invitos regentibus quam Regibus magis congrua.]
NOMIZE [Greek or Hebrew] &c. Existima tunc regnare te tutò, cum volentibus imperas hominibus. Quod enim invitò subjicitur, seditions molitur, captâ occasione. Quod vere vinculis benevolentiae tenetur, firmam servat ergatenentem observantiam.
NOMIZE 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 &c. Existima tunc regnare te tutò, cum volentibus imperas hominibus. Quod enim invitò subjicitur, seditiones molitur, captâ occasione. Quod vere vinculis benevolentiae tenetur, firmam servat ergatenentem observantiam.
1 Pet. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4. The Elders which are AMONG you I exhort, who am also an Elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the Glory that shall be revealed; Feed the Flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint but willingly; Not for FILTHY LUCRE, but of a ready mind: Neither as being Lords over Gods heritage, b•• being ensamples to the Flock; And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a Crown of Glory that fadeth not away.] See Dr. Hammond on the Text.⟨p. 179⟩ Mr. Glanviles Letter. Reverend and most Honoured Sir, I Have often taken my pen in hand with a design to signify to you, how much I love and honour so much learning, piety, and exemplary goodness as you are owner of; And how passionately desirous I have been, and am, to be known to a person with whom none hath a like place in my highest esteem and value: But my affections and respects still growing infinitely too big for mine expression, I thought I should but disparage them, by going about to represent them. And when I sate down to consider, how I might most advantageously set forth my regards, and high sense of your great deserts, I always found my self confounded with subject. And the throng of mine affections, each of them impatient to be first upon my paper, hindered one another's gratification. Great passions are difficultly spoken: And I find my self now so pained with the sense that I cannot write suitably to the honour I have for you, that I can scarce forbear throwing away my pen; being near concluding, that 'tis better to speak nothing in such a subject, than a little. But when I consider you as a person that have high affections for those excellent qualifications, which in the highest degree are your possession, and suitably resent the worth of those that own them; I am encouraged to think that you may conceive how I honour you (though my pen cannot tell it you) by reflecting upon your own estimate of those, that are of the highest form of learning, parts, and exemplary piety; or, more compendiously, such in your judgment, as I take you for, Incomparable. And yet I have a jealousy that that will not reach it; for though I think your judicious esteem of such, cannot be surpassed; yet I am apt to think, that none ever got such an interest, and hold upon your passions, as hath the object of my admiration, on mine.