A27035:1020
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.
7. Seeing it is above 20 years since I wrote that against Dr. Moulin which you cite, and he never found fault with it, nor justified his mistakes, may I not think that he was convinced and repented? And you that praise his death-bed repentance, should not Characterize him by failings twenty years repented of?
8. How do you know that the Dr. repented not of his too hard words of you till his death-bed? You are mistaken? In his health I more than once blamed him, 1. For his censure of Dr. Stillingfleet and the other particular persons, whose worth was known, and had deserved well of the Protestant Churches; 2. For his extending those censures to the Conformists and Church which belong to some particular persons, and the most are not guilty of, And 3. For his Book of the fewness of the saved, as presumptuous: And as far as I could then discern he repented of them all, but laid the ill Title-page of the last on the Book-seller: And he still thought of Causes and Parties as very different, he owned not his harsh words or censures aforesaid. I found him not raging nor impenitent.
9. Doth not your own description of his great readiness to beg forgiveness, and loathness to own any thing uncharitable, show a better spirit than your picture doth describe?
9. Doth not your own description of his great readiness to beg forgiveness, and lothness to own any thing uncharitable, shew a better spirit than your picture doth describe?