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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.
§ 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.
2. When Bancroft and others had got many cast out and silenced, a great part of them kept in by connivance of some peaceable Bishops, and by the mediation of some Lords and Gentlemen, such as the Earl of Leicester, Bedford, Warwick, the Lord Burghley, Sir Francis, Walsingham, Sir Amias Pawlet, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Mr. Beal, and Sir Francis Knowles had been to them before: Yea the greater part of them by such favour got into privileged peculiar places, or little Chapels at least; Few Counties had not some Gentlemen that sheltered them. The Earl of Huntington kept in Mr. Hildersham at Ashby, Mr. Slater and Mr. Ash, even in the big Town of Birmingham, Mr. Mainwaring kept in Mr. Ball at Whitmore; Mr. Knightley kept in Mr. Dod, Judge Bromley (and his humble holy Lady) kept Mr. Brumskill at Sheriff Hales, and entertained many more (Mr. Nicols &c.) Sir Richard Graves at Moseley had Mr. Pateman and divers others, seldom without a Nonconformist: One would think Doctor Stillingfleet should know that his own Patron, under whose wing he lived, Sir Roger Burgonie was seldom without a Nonconformist at Roxhall in Warwickshire: Mr. Hering had long liberty at St. Mary's in Shrewsbury, Mr. Ford ⟨p. 34⟩(who wrote on the Psalms) had the School Lecture there, Mr. Atkins at […], kept in to the last, even the Lord Dudley, favouring him. Abundance such I might name, Mr. Barnet, at Uppington (whom I oft heard Catechize Dr. Allestree,) Mr. Tandy at Bewdley, Mr. Langley, Mr. Paget, Mr. Hind, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Roll, Mr. Nicols, Mr. Mather, Mr. Rathband, Mr. Bar••n, Mr. Gee, Mr. Wright, Mr. Smart, &c. had their liberties for some time. And when one Bishop silenced them, the next oft gave them liberty (as Bishop Bridgman did after Bishop Mortons silencing some) and when they were silenced, they went oft into another Diocese, where they rubbed out a year or more, and then to another; And so were still in some hope of public liberty.