A27035:272
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.
2. And if the next year they had seen the Churches burnt, and the City in ruins, and few Parish Ministers officiate, they would have thought i• a sin to Preach to the desolate City, to assemble them to worship ⟨p. 43⟩God; and would have let them under so dreadful judgements, live and dye like profane Atheists?
2. And if the next year they had seen the Churches burnt, and the City in ruins, and few Parish Ministers officiate, they would have thought i• a sin to Preach to the desolate City, to assemble them to worship ⟨p. 43⟩God; and would have let them under so dreadful judgements, live and dye like prophane Atheists?
3. And if shortly after the King had Licensed them to assemble and Preach, would they have refused it as a sin?
4. And if the Prelates had prevailed by such a Parliament against the Kings License, and he still had showed the clemency of his mind by his connivance, and Magistrates were loth to execute the rigorous Laws, and people would not inform, and the informers repented, and thousands more called to the Nonconformists for help, than did there when Popery stuck still in the peoples hearts; would they have thought all this no alteration of the Case, to judge whether their Preaching would do good or hurt?
4. And if the Prelates had prevailed by such a Parliament against the Kings License, and he still had shewed the clemencie of his mind by his conivence, and Magistrates were loth to execute the rigorous Laws, and people would not inform, and the informers repented, and thousands more called to the Nonconformists for help, than did there when Popery stuck still in the peoples hearts; would they have thought all this no alteration of the Case, to judge whether their Preaching would do good or hurt?