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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
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. And lest any should think that we are all for Negatives, I wrote a Treatise of the only Terms of Universal Christian concord, which I value above all the rest, being assured that the Churches will never otherwise be healed, than by that impartial, sure, and easy Catholic way, which some have reviled, but none since, that I know of, confuted. One Learned Bishop (that had a chief hand in our present Impositions and ejection) ⟨image 5⟩I desired to tell me, which is the way of Christian concord, if this be not: And he maintaineth, That the only way is to obey the College of Pastors, who are to govern the Catholic Church through all the world, per Literas formatas. Where this College, as one governing power do meet, or how they signify their Majority of Votes, and in what cases, and who must gather the Votes (from Abyssinia to Muscovy), and in how long time, and how they shall come to all men with certainty; and whether the ejected, silenced, and excommunicated, &c. may appeal to them, &c. I could not learn.
§. 8. And lest any should think that we are all for Negatives, I wrote a Treatise of the only Terms of Universal Christian concord, which I value above all the rest, being assured that the Churches will never otherwise be healed, than by that impartial, sure, and easie Catholick way, which some have reviled, but none since, that I know of, confuted. One Learned Bishop (that had a chief hand in our present Impositions and ejection) ⟨image 5⟩I desired to tell me, which is the way of Christian concord, if this be not: And he maintaineth, That the only way is to obey the Colledg of Pastors, who are to govern the Catholick Church through all the world, per Literas formatas. Where this Colledg, as one governing power do meet, or how they signifie their Majority of Votes, and in what cases, and who must gather the Votes (from Abassia to Moscovie), and in how long time, and how they shall come to all men with certainty; and whether the ejected, silenced, and excommunicated, &c. may appeal to them, &c. I could not learn.