A27035:183
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.
§. 10. Some think that it is a Conventicle as described by their Cannon that must make us Separatists, which is of men that call themselves of another Church. But that's not it: Mr. Gouge, Mr. Poole, Mr. Humphrey, and my self, and abundance more that never gathered any Church, nor called our selves of any other then their own, are nevertheless separatists in these mens account.
§. 11. They that remembered what was called Separation in England of old, supposed it had these two degrees, which made men called Brownists. First falsely taking the Parish Ministers and Churches for no true Ministers and Churches of Christ, and therefore not to be Communicated with. Secondly or (in the lower rank) falsely taking the faults of the Parish Ministers and Churches to be so great, that its a sin to have ordinary Communion with them. But they that have still disclaimed both these are Separatists still in our Accusers sense.
§. 11. They that remembred what was called Separation in England of old, supposed it had these two degrees, which made men called Brownists. First falsly taking the Parish Ministers and Churches for no true Ministers and Churches of Christ, and therefore not to be Communicated with. Secondly or (in the lower rank) falsly taking the faults of the Parish Ministers and Churches to be so great, that its a sin to have ordinary Communion with them. But they that have still disclaimed both these are Separatists still in our Accusers sence.
§. 12. Some thought that ordinary Communicating in the Parish Churches and pleading for it, would prove us no separatists with them. But this ⟨p. 26⟩will not serve as my own and many other mens Experience proveth.