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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.
Yea upon the foresaid Accusations their Canons were formed against the Nonconformists, forbidding their Assembling, Preaching, calling themselves a distinct Church, and a great deal more such: and yet now the men that conform to these Canons are certain that they were made upon safe suppositions, and not one of the Nonconformists were so guilty.
But doth not the Doctor thus grievously accuse the Church which he would defend? Were they such men 1. that would so falsely accuse the Innocent 2. and use them so cruelly on such false accusations, many of them dying in Prisons, and many lay there long &c. 3. and to form Canons on such false suppositions?
But doth not the Doctor thus grievously accuse the Church which he would defend? Were they such men 1. that would so falsly accuse the Innocent 2. and use them so cruelly on such false accusations, many of them dying in Prisons, and many lay there long &c. 3. and to form Canons on such false suppositions?
§ 12. And I do not think I shall prevail with him to tell me, whether he that thinks their Case and ours was so much the same, doth verily believe 1. That if they had been in the Plague at London, and seen the forsaken people crowding for instruction to prepare for death, the Nonconformists (such as Bradshaw, Gifford, Hildersham, Greenham, &c.) would have refused to Preach to them.