A27035:300
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.
Did not the Nonconformists differ from the Conformists, in the Doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture for regulating Church-Order and Worship; and about the Divine Right of Diocesans and Elders, and about Parish Discipline. Do not we now differ about the undoubted certainty of the salvation of all dying baptized Infants? Will this warrant a separation?
Sect. 2, 1. p. 75. He tells us very confidently that diversity of circumstantial pretences for Separation, alter not the case: But 1. Its true that if twenty men have twenty false pretences for Separation, none of them are thereby justified; but if one man have a just cause, it justifieth him: I named very many just and unjust causes in my Plea, and he giveth no answer to it. 2. Are they such circumstances before named: Oaths, Declarations, Subscriptions, Doctrine, &c? 3. What if the Law should change, and allow of various Churches? what if the King license them? These be but circumstances: What if the Plague drive away the Parish Ministers? what if the Churches be burnt and the people forsaken? will no such circumstances ⟨p. 53⟩make other Assemblies lawful, because he calls them separate.
Sect. 22. p. 78. His undertaking is repeated: [He is certain that preaching in opposition to our established Laws, is contrary to the Doctrine of all the Nonconformists of former times.] Answ. If I have not proved the contrary, I cannot prove that they were English men.