A27035:173
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.
And. 3. What meaneth he by [Constant Communion] I go to the Parish Church when sickness hindereth not, once a day; I go to the Sacrament, and am none of their Church. Thousands go but rarely, and thousands scarce at all, at least to the Sacrament, and these are of their Church and no separatists.
And. 3. What meaneth he by [Constant Communion] I go to the Parish Church when sickness hindreth not, once a day; I go to the Sacrament, and am none of their Church. Thousands go but rarely, and thousands scarce at all, at least to the Sacrament, and these are of their Church and no separatists.
4. But perhaps the conjunction is explicative [and join with separate Congregations for greater purity, and Edification: If so, then he that never joineth with them nor any other is none of the intended separatists. 2. Nor he that goeth to other Churches on other accounts than for purity of Worship and Edification (As Papists that go as to the only true Church for the Authority).
4. But perhaps the conjunction is explicative [and joyn with separate Congregations for greater purity, and Edification: If so, then he that never joyneth with them nor any other is none of the intended separatists. 2. Nor he that goeth to other Churches on other accounts than for purity of Worship and Edification (As Papists that go as to the only true Church for the Authority).
§ 3. But the utter ambiguity is in the word separate; And that you may understand it he explaineth it by repeating it. By separation he means withdrawing to separate Congregations. But the doubt is, which are the separate Congregations. I named many sorts of Lawful and unlawful separations, but he will not tell us which he meaneth by any entreaty.