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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.
§ 7. It is neither consistent with my leisure, nor the business now in hand, nor I suppose the patience of most readers, that I should prove this further by a Voluminous transcribing Histories already extant. If the Book which Dr. St. citeth called part of a Register be perused, he will find, 1. That the passage cited by the D. was the reprehension of many Londoners taken at a meeting in an open Hall of a Company, which meeting they avowed: Is this a proof that they were against such public meetings, or for it? When for it they lay in many Prisons.
§ 7. It is neither consistent with my leisure, nor the business now in hand, nor I suppose the patience of most readers, that I should prove this further by a Voluminous transcribing Histories already extant. If the Book which Dr. St. citeth called part of a Register be perused, he will find, 1. That the passage cited by the D. was the reprehension of many Londoners taken at a meeting in an open Hall of a Company, which meeting they avowed: Is this a proof that they were against such publick meetings, or for it? When for it they lay in many Prisons.
2. That they professed that they forsook not the Public Churches, till their Teachers were silenced and turned out: So little doth silencing tend to union.
2. That they professed that they forsook not the Publick Churches, till their Teachers were silenced and turned out: So little doth silencing tend to union.
3. That yet these being ordinary Citizens, spake many things weakly, crying out too rashly of the Rags and Ceremonies of Antichrist: But he might have found many things in the Register more worthy his communication: For instance.