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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.
Sect. 25. Which I yet further prove, 1. Because its agreed by all, that Governing Order is a medium for the thing ordered; and never obligeth when it overthroweth the end, power being given to Edification and not to Destruction: None have power to forbid the necessary preaching of the Gospel, and probably to damn Souls. 2. Because else the Nonconformists should be more against preaching when forbidden than the Conformists; who say as Bishop Bilson, We must go on with our work, & suffer: and as Bishop Andrews Tortur. Torti. Cohibeat Regem Diaconus, &c. 3. Yea, the Papists who on pretence of Obedience are tyrannical, yet mostly agree (as I have elsewhere proved) that humane Laws bind not beyond the case of scandal, when they are against the common good: And a Toletane Council decreed, that their Constitutions should not be taken to bind ad p•c•atum, (to hazard Souls) but only ad poenam. 4. As I have said, their own practice fully expounded their words, who constantly broke the Law and Canon in preaching in Houses and in Chapels without, or contrary to the Liturgy, or a part of it. So did Mr. Ball at Whitemore, Mr. Hind at Banbury, Mr. Geree and Mr. Fox at Tewksbury, John Rogers at Dedham, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Bourne at Manchester, Mr. Gee, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Broxholme, Mr. Cooper, and abundance more, besides those mentioned before.
Sect. 25. Which I yet further prove, 1. Because its agreed by all, that Governing Order is a medium for the thing ordered; and never obligeth when it overthroweth the end, power being given to Edification and not to Destruction: None have power to forbid the necessary preaching of the Gospel, and probably to damn Souls. 2. Because else the Nonconformists should be more against preaching when forbidden than the Conformists; who say as Bishop Bilson, We must go on with our work, & suffer: and as Bishop Andrews Tortur. Torti. Cohibeat Regem Diaconus, &c. 3. Yea, the Papists who on pretence of Obedience are tyrannical, yet mostly agree (as I have elsewhere proved) that humane Laws bind not beyond the case of scandal, when they are against the common good: And a Toletane Council decreed, that their Constitutions should not be taken to bind ad p•c•atum, (to hazard Souls) but only ad poenam. 4. As I have said, their own practice fully expounded their words, who constantly broke the Law and Canon in preaching in Houses and in Chappels without, or contrary to the Liturgy, or a part of it. So did Mr. Ball at Whitemore, Mr. Hind at Banbury, Mr. Geree and Mr. Fox at Tewksbury, John Rogers at Dedham, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Harvy, Mr. Bourne at Manchester, Mr. Gee, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Broxholme, Mr. Cooper, and abundance more, besides those mentioned before.