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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.
§. 15. I confess he hath made some attempt to tell me what the National Church of England is; but so Independently, as I doubt his party will disown it with great offence. In short, he holds, that there is no such thing as a Church of England, in the usual Political sense, having any Constitutive, Ecclesiastical, Supreme Power, Monarchical, or Aristocratical, or Democratical, but it's only the many Churches in England, associated by the common consent in Parliament, &c. Remember that he and I are so far agreed.
As I was writing this, I saw a Book against him of a friend, too much for me, and somewhat freely handling the Dr. which in this point would help them, by saying, that the Convocation having the Legislative Church-Power, may be the Constitutive, Regent part: But he confesseth to me, that he spake not what is, but what he counts should be, or wisheth; for the Dr. himself had before told us, that the Convocations of Canterbury and York are two, and not united to make one National, supreme power; so that this proveth no one political Church of England at all, but only 2 Provincial Churches in England.
§. 16. The Dr. hath so judiciously and honestly pleaded our Cause in his defence of A. Bishop Laud, and his Book against Idolatry, that I have made his words the first Chap. of this Book, which if he candidly stand to, I see not but our principles are the same.