A27035:212
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.
2. We maintain as well as he that the Chief Nonconformists were against that called Brownism or Separation, and wrote more against it than the Conformists did.
3. I still profess my self to be of their Judgment in this, and have practised accordingly.
4. But they were not against such Preaching, or any such sort of separation as I have either practised or defended.
§ 3. Here therefore it must be known what the Controversy between them and the separatists was. 1. The higher sort of separatists said, that the Church of England was no true Church. The Nonconformists, said it was a true National Church both as a Christian Kingdom, and as an Association of Churches, (and as represented in National Synods were they made one.)
§ 3. Here therefore it must be known what the Controversie between them and the separatists was. 1. The higher sort of separatists said, that the Church of England was no true Church. The Nonconformists, said it was a true National Church both as a Christian Kingdom, and as an Association of Churches, (and as represented in National Synods were they made one.)