A27035:1035
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
AN ANSWER TO Dean STILINGFLEETS, &c. › Postscript: POSTSCRIPT.
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.
POSTSCRIPT.
Five Additional Notices to the Reader.
There are some things of which I thought meet to add this notice to the Reader.
THere are some things of which I thought meet to add this notice to the Reader.
I. That I am more alienated from Conformity in the point of Assent, Consent and Use, in denying Christendom to all Children who have no Godfathers and Godmothers, and excluding the Parents from that Office, by some late Observations which my retiredness kept me unacquainted with: I am requested by some poor People to Baptize their Children: I tell them the Parish Ministers must do it. They answer me, That they cannot have them Baptized by the Parish Ministers, because they are poor; and can neither pay the Curate nor the Godfathers: I ask them, Cannot you get Godfathers without money: They say, No: No body will be Godfather to their Children for nothing? Whereupon enquiring into the case, I am informed, that among the poor it is become a trade, to be hired persons to be Godfathers and Godmothers; and some that have not money must leave their Children unbaptized, and till lately, Popish Priests Baptized many. I am not willing to aggravate this Hiring, nor the causes of it, nor that the same men that think Baptism necessary to Salvation, (or as Mr. Dodwell speaks, to a Covenant right to Salvation) should yet shut out all that have not money to hire such Covenanters; But I am not Conformable to such Church-Orders.