A27035:313
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
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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.
Answ. 1. And is not my case the same? We had more than connivance when we had the Kings Licenses, and ever since experience tells you that his Clemency hath occasioned a restraint of the Bishops, and some connivance from them. 2. And if it were the Temples that make the difference, let them allow us to preach there and see whether we will refuse it: And sure the Conformists that preach in Tabernacles are not Separatists; the Parish Teacher of St. Martins now preacheth in the same place which I built to have preached in, and for so doing was by a warrant judged to prison. They had no more Law on their side than I have, they usually read no more of the Liturgy but the Confession and the Scriptures, and many not the first at all, and some more; so that its a full proof that if breaking the Law had been all their stop, they would have still preached.
Answ. 1. And is not my case the same? We had more than connivence when we had the Kings Licenses, and ever since experience tells you that his Clemency hath occasioned a restraint of the Bishops, and some connivence from them. 2. And if it were the Temples that make the difference, let them allow us to preach there and see whether we will refuse it: And sure the Conformists that preach in Tabernacles are not Separatists; the Parish Teacher of St. Martins now preacheth in the same place which I built to have preached in, and for so doing was by a warrant judged to prison. They had no more Law on their side than I have, they usually read no more of the Liturgy but the Confession and the Scriptures, and many not the first at all, and some more; so that its a full proof that if breaking the Law had been all their stop, they would have still preached.