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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.
3. Did the Papists think Bishop Lauds reconciling design described by Doctor Heylin, (entertained by Sancta Clara, Leander, &c.) or the Parliaments fears of his introducing Popery in those times, to be more against them?
4. Are they liker to help in Popery, that are so apt to be over-averse to any thing that favours of it, in Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship, and account the Pope Antichrist? Or they that hold as followeth. 1. (As Grotius) That a Papist is but one that flatters the Popes, as if all were just that they say and do (and so there are few Papists I hope in the World.) 2. That the Church of Rome is sound in Faith. 3. And so are all the General Councils, even Trent. 4. That Rome is the Mistress of all Churches; or as Bishop Bromhal, that for Concord we must all obey the Pope, as Patriarch of the West, and Principium Unitatis Catholicae, ruling according to the old Canons, (a Foreign Jurisdiction) and all those pass for Schismatics, that refuse it (of which more after.) 5. That the validity of our Ministry must be proved by the derivation of it from the uninterrupted succession of the Roman Ordainers and Church. 6. That the Church of Rome by that succession is a true, though faulty Church of Christ, but so are none of the Reformed Churches which have not Bishops, or have them not by such uninterrupted succession. 7. That the only way of the Concord of Churches and all Christians is (saith Bishop Gunning) to obey the governing part of the Church Universal, which […] Collegium Pastorum, all the Bishops of the universal Church, in one Regent College, governing all the Christian World per literas formatas. 8. That its safer and better for the Protestants in ⟨p. 19⟩France to be of the French Church of Papists than to continue without Bishops as they are. 9. That we should come as near the Papists as the Greek Church doth, or as both Greek and Latin did at the rupture of the two Churches, or as in Greg. 1st. days say others, or as in Char. Mag. days, say others; receiving say some the first six General Councils, say others the first 8. 10. That we must amend the Oath of Supremacy for the Papists, as Thorndike saith, and so many Doctrines as he intimateth. 11. That its desirable that the Papists had continued in our Churches as in the beginning of Queen Eliz. And if they come (as Church Papists do) should be received in our Communion. 12. That if the Pope have not (as some hold) a right of such Primacy as belongs to Saint Peters successor, at least, His Primacy is a very prudent humane constitution. 1. That there may be a Common Father to care for all the Church. 2.