A27035:117
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.
Pag. 542 He means the formal right of them was conveyed to the Church, and that Saint Peter was only a public person to receive them in the name of the Church.
Pag. 542 He means the formal right of them was conveyed to the Church, and that Saint Peter was only a publick person to receive them in the name of the Church.
It primarily and formally resides in the whole body of the Church.
Pag. 544. His Lordship saith your opinion is yet more unreasonable; because no body collective, whensoever it assembled it self, did ever give more power to the representing body of it, than a binding power upon it self and all particulars; nor ever did it give this power otherwise than with this reservation in nature, that it would call again and reform, and if need were, abrogate any law, or ordinance upon just cause made evident, that the representing body had failed in trust or truth. And this power no body collective, Ecclesiastical or Civil can put out of it self, or give away to a Parliament or Council, or call it what you will, that represents it.
Pag. 544. His Lordship saith your opinion is yet more unreasonable; because no body collective, whensoever it assembled it self, did ever give more powerto the representing body of it, than a binding power upon it self and all particulars; nor ever did it give this power otherwise than with this reservation in nature, that it would call again and reform, and if need were, abrogate any law, or ordinance upon just cause made evident, that the representing body had failed in trust or truth. And this power no body collective, Ecclesiastical or Civil can put out of it self, or give away to a Parliament or Council, or call it what you will, that represents it.