A27035:1031
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. You say, p. 17. He hath something of the Nonconformists in him, and for that reason he spareth him:
Answ. Do not Nonconformists differ from Erastians? Did not I write against his opinion of Church-Government? And did he not bear 22 years ago when Conformity was not in our Controversies.
5. You say of [the party that come nearest the doctrine of Calvinists and Puritans, (though you say you mean such as D. M. your Reader must suppose you mean the Nonconformists) that [they are the true Causes of all our present evils.—For the late War was raised,—by the very best of you, &c.] If you mean, as you seem, it's somewhat extraordinary to persuade men to believe this in the same Land and Age that the War was raised in; And for one to do this that had the first General of the Horse in the Earl of Essex Army, his Patron a few doors from him, and the Lord Hollis a Colonel nearer him till lately, and the Lord President of his Majesties Privy-Council a Colonel not far off him, and many more known Conformists, who could all quickly have satisfied him how few Nonconformists were Members of Parliament or Commanders in the Army when the War began, and that it was between two parties of Conformists that the Wars began, as I have proved against Mr. Hinkley, and can fuller do when there is need. Which party is most obliged to repentance you may dispute with those that are fit for it: But if your intimation be untrue, it is of another nature, and degree than any of Dr. Moulins. I confess one party did in many Parliaments before, and in that, accuse Bishop Laud and his new followers, 1. Of Innovations, 2. Of Arminianism, 3. Of promoting absolute arbitrary Government against the Subjects Property and Liberty, 4. And of promoting Popery. But if this party were not Conformists of the Church of England, the Bishops, Clergy and Gentry were not the Church in Arch-bishop Abbots days before Bishop Laud.