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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. › Chapter 2: Some Animadversions on his Preface.
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.
2. And I would he would have better told us what the Spiritual Prayer is, which the Jesuits first brought in and helps in Popery. For hitherto it is the Dead Ceremonious formality and Imagery of Popery, destroying Spirituality, (by words not understood, Mummeries, Beads, Canting Stage works) which hath alienated most Religious Protestants from them. I will. 1. Tell you what I take Spiritual Prayer to be; and then. 2. Desire his judgment of it.
2. And I would he would have better told us what the Spiritual Prayer is, which the Jesuits first brought in and helpes in Popery. For hitherto it is the Dead Ceremonious formality and Imagery of Popery, destroying Spirituality, (by words not understood, Mummeries, Beads, Canting Stage workes) which hath alienated most Religious Protestants from them. I will. 1. Tell you what I take Spiritual Prayer to be; and then. 2. Desire his judgment of it.
1. It is my judgment (if he know it to be erroneous, I crave his reasons) 1. That Mans Soul is by sin so depraved that it is morally unable without Gods Spirit, effectually to know, feel and desire deliverance from his own sin and misery, and to desire Gods Grace and Glory, above all worldly sinful pleasures.
2. That therefore such desires in act and habit must be wrought in us by the Spirit of God. And the whole work of Regeneration and Sanctification is a giving to the Soul that new Divine nature, Love and delight, which worketh by such holy desires. And that as the carnal mind is enmity to God, and cannot be subject to his Law, and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, the same is none of his; so to be Spiritually minded is life and peace, and God who is a Spirit will be worshipped in Spirit and truth, and by this we know that we are the Children of God by the Spirit which he hath given us; For he promised to pour out the Spirit of Grace and supplication: And because we are sons, he hath given us the Spirit of his Son, by which we cry Abba Father: And this Spirit helpeth our Infirmities in Prayer: If these things be in the Papists Bible, I hope they are not therefore Popery. I suppose the Papists also own our God, our Saviour and our Creed.