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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.
And when silenced they used to keep private fasts; And where they lodged to preach on pretence of expounding to as many as they could.
And when silenced they used to keepe private fasts; And where they lodged to preach on pretense of expounding to as many as they could.
They obeyed the Bishops as Magistrates, but not as Pastors.
They knowingly broke the Law in their private and public Ministry: They obeyed not the Canons; used not much of the Liturgy; And many of them did as some do now, get into public Pulpits for a day and away, where they were not known.
They knowingly broke the Law in their private and publick Ministry: They obeyed not the Canons; used not much of the Liturgy; And many of them did as some do now, get into publick Pulpits for a day and away, where they were not known.
§. 12. But yet there are more undeniable evidences of the falseness of what, he saith, he is certain of, as the judgment of All the Old Nonconformists. One is the known judgement of the Scotch Reformers, and the common accusation of the English, as being of their mind. He that will affirm that the Scotch Presbyterians thought it unlawful to preach or hold Assemblies, when forbidden by Magistrates or Prelates, will incur a very sharp censure from their own Leaders, who have written so many Books, which charge them with the contrary, and make them Rebels and Seditious for it: Such as Bancroft, Heylin, Beziers, and multitudes both old and new; especially these last twenty years.