A27035:244
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.
§ 16. And it is not nothing that the most Learned Conformists agree with them, as I have oft cited Bishop Bilsons words, that the Magistrate doth not give us our power, nor may hinder our use of it, but is appointed by God to protect and encourage us, and if he forbid or hinder us, we are to go on with our work and patiently suffer.
And even now I believe most of the Leading Clergy think that if a Synod bid us preach and hold assemblies, and the King forbid it, we are ⟨p. 36⟩to obey the Synod rather than the King, Mr. Thorndike, and many others that write for the Church thought so. And Mr. Dodvel thinks so even of a particular Bishop. The difference then is but this: One party giveth this power to a Synod of Bishops (and Presbyters perhaps conjoined) and the other to a Synod of Parochial Pastors, Doctors and Elders. But both agreed that the Magistrates prohibition in that case is not to be obeyed. And the Conformists will not take it well if I should say that the Nonconformist are more for obedience to Magistrates than they: I still except the Erastians, and such as own Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicon.
And even now I believe most of the Leading Clergy think that if a Synod bid us preach and hold assemblies, and the King forbid it, we are ⟨p. 36⟩to obey the Synod rather than the King, Mr. Thorndike, and many others that write for the Church thought so. And Mr. Dodvel thinks so even of a particular Bishop. The difference then is but this: One party giveth this power to a Synod of Bishops (and Presbyters perhaps conjoyned) and the other to a Synod of Parochial Pastors, Doctors and Elders. But both agreed that the Magistrates prohibition in that case is not to be obeyed. And the Conformists will not take it well if I should say that the Nonconformist are more for obedience to Magistrates than they: I still except the Erastians, and such as own Dr. Stillingfleets Irenicon.