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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 now cometh Doctor Stillingfleet, and tells you, that [he is certain that all the old Nonconformists] were quite of another mind, and other men, and to prove it citeth four or five mens words against Brownists; When yet he citeth more of my own against Separation: and if my words prove me not to be against it, how will theirs prove them to be against it?
§ 9. Either Bancrofts, Heylins and such others words of them are true or false. If true, how untrue are Doctor Stillingfleet's? If false, O what a sort of men were these Prelates that so stigmatized and accused and so used so many hundred such men, on so false a charge? And what a Church was it that made the Canons against them on that supposition? And how shall we know which of them to believe? Doth not Doctor Stillingfleet heavily reproach his own Church for such usage of them?
§ 9. Either Bancrofts, Heylins and such others words of them are true or false. If true, how untrue are Doctor Stillingfleet's? If false, O what a sort of men were these Prelates that so stigmatized and accused and so used so many hundred such men, on so false a charge? And what a Church was it that made the Canons against them on that supposition? And how shall we know which of them to believe? Doth not Doctor Stillingfleet heavily reproach his own Church for such usuage of them?
§ 10. The case is commonly known, First that a long time they had almost all of them Parish Churches as other men had: and they sought to set up Discipline in those Churches. And it had been folly then to gather others in other places.