A27035:1012
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.
§. 4. But it's intimated, that this was because we agreed in other things? I answer, we disagreed also even about Church-Government, which was the dividing Controversy of those times. The Dr. was zealous for the Magistrates Power in Erastus sense, and went rather further than Dr. Stilling fleet in his Irenicum: And as I was before against him, so after this, about 12 years ago, I wrote that Book against him about the Magistrates Power in Church-matters, in which I called him My sincere friend, thinking sincere friendship consistent with such a difference and an open Confutation. (And if the contrary must be repented of, I hope such charity is no crime.) This third Book against him also he took patiently, and without breach of Love.
§. 4. But it's intimated, that this was because we agreed in other things? I answer, we disagreed also even about Church-Government, which was the dividing Controversie of those times. The Dr. was zealous for the Magistrates Power in Erastus sense, and went rather further than Dr. Stilling fleet in his Irenicum: And as I was before against him, so after this, about 12 years ago, I wrote that Book against him about the Magistrates Power in Church-matters, in which I called him My sincere friend, thinking sincere friendship consistent with such a difference and an open Confutation. (And if the contrary must be repented of, I hope such charity is no crime.) This third Book against him also he took patiently, and without breach of Love.
And when I laboured to persuade him to retract his Writings against Excommunication, though he held still to his Conclusion, and thought that the great work that God called him to in the World, was to discover the Papal and Prelatical Usurpation of the Magistrates power under the name of Ecclesiastical, yet I made him confess all the matter that I pleaded for, and he made me see that his error lay most in mere ambiguous words, which he had not •ateness enough to explicate. All this patience signified not uncharitableness, rage or fury. And I obliged him not by praise, but […] ⟨p. 185⟩