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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.
Q. 5. Is this only occasional joining?
Q. 5. Is this only occasional joyning?
Sect. 3. I do maintain that 1. When, consideratis considerandis, we may choose the purest Churches and most edifying Ministry, it is a duty so to do. And one of his answers (the Rector, &c.) hath in the Epistle cited his own words, not out of the retracted Irenicon, but his late Book against Popery, expressly threatening us with damnation if we do not. To which I find no excuse made by him, yea the Papist adversary grants the same.
Sect. 3. I do maintain that 1. When, consideratis considerandis, we may choose the purest Churches and most edifying Ministry, it is a duty so to do. And one of his answers (the Rector, &c.) hath in the Epistle cited his own words, not out of the retracted Irenicon, but his late Book against Popery, expresly threatning us with damnation if we do not. To which I find no excuse made by him, yea the Papist adversary grants the same.
2. I do maintain against those that separate from all Churches which they dare not be stated members of, that its lawful to communicate occasionally, where we may not do it statedly: But is this to deny all save occasional communion with all their Churches?