A27035:311
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. 27. As to the Answers of Mr. Sprint, on my knowledge the usual answer was, That evil must not be done that we may have leave to do good, and that if others hinder me because I will not sin, it is not my omission of any duty; yet the disparity of the Apostles case and ours, may be mentioned to show the difference of obligations.
Sect. 27. As to the Answers of Mr. Sprint, on my knowledge the usual answer was, That evil must not be done that we may have leave to do good, and that if others hinder me because I will not sin, it is not my omission of any duty; yet the disparity of the Apostles case and ours, may be mentioned to shew the difference of obligations.
Positive Precepts bind not ad semper, but Negatives do; and its too gross a shift to turn a Negative to a Positive, and then pretend that the comparison is between two duties: preaching is a duty when we can do it, but not when we cannot do it, unless we will swear, subscribe, profess, or practise a forbidden thing.
Sect. 28. I conjecture that to what I have proved of the practice of the Nonconformists, it will be said that Their preaching in peculiar places, Chapels, or Churches, though in a manner against Law and Canon, was but a partial joining with the Church of England, and not a separation; and the connivance of the Bishops was a kind of Toleration.
Sect. 28. I conjecture that to what I have proved of the practice of the Nonconformists, it will be said that Their preaching in peculiar places, Chappels, or Churches, though in a manner against Law and Canon, was but a partial joyning with the Church of England, and not a separation; and the connivence of the Bishops was a kind of Toleration.