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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.
§ 8. As to his Accusation of my first Plea for Peace, he hath it after, and it is after answered. And as to his Accusation of my book for Concord, I answer. 1. Is it no Ministers work, in a contending world, to tell and prove what are Christs ordained terms of Christian Concord, but his that is [Christs plenipotentiary on Earth, and were to set the terms of Peace and War] Is this spoken like a peace maker and a Divine? Doth not he pretend also in his way to declare the terms of Concord?
§ 8. As to his Accusation of my first Plea for Peace, he hath it after, and it is after answered. And as to his Accusation of my book for Concord, I answer. 1. Is it no Ministers work, in a contending world, to tell and prove what are Christs ordained termes of Christian Concord, but his that is [Christs plenipotentiary on Earth, and were to set the termes of Peace and War] Is this spoken like a peace maker and a Divine? Doth not he pretend also in his way to declare the terms of Concord?
2. But no man more heartily agreeth with him in lamenting the state of the Church on earth, that when such men as Bishop Gunning, Dean Stillingfleet, Dr. Saywel, &c. on one side, and such as I and many better men on the other side, have so many years studied hard to know Gods will, I am certain for my self, and I hope it of them, with an unfeigned desire to find out the truth what ever it cost, (and I profess as going to God, that would he but make me know that Popery, silencing Prelacy, imprisoning, Banishing, or ruining all Nonconformists, Anabaptists, Antinomians, Quakers, or any that ever I wrote against, are in the right, I would with greater joy and thankfulness recant and turn to them, than I would receive the greatest preferment in the land) I say, that yet after all this we should so far differ, as for one side to be confident that the others way of Concord is the ready way to ruin, wickedness and confusion, and to come to that boldness to proclaim this to the world, alas how doleful a case is this?
2. But no man more heartily agreeth with him in lamenting the state of the Church on earth, that when such men as Bishop Gunning, Dean Stillingfleet, Dr. Saywel, &c. on one side, and such as I and many better men on the other side, have so many years studied hard to know Gods will, I am certain for my self, and I hope it of them, with an unseigned desire to find out the truth what ever it cost, (and I profess as going to God, that would he but make me know that Popery, silencing Prelacy, imprisoning, Banishing, or ruining all Nonconformists, Anabaptists, Antinomians, Quakers, or any that ever I wrote against, are in the right, I would with greater joy and thankfulness recant and turne to them, than I would receive the greatest preferment in the land) I say, that yet after all this we should so far differ, as for one side to be confident that the others way of Concord is the ready way to ruin, wickedness and confusion, and to come to that boldness to proclaim this to the world, alas how doleful a case is this?