A27035:396
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. 16. P. 103. He adds [in the same Books he saith, it is Schismatical in a Church to deny Baptism without the transient Sign of the Cross, or for want of God-fathers, &c. or to deny Communion to such who scruple kneeling. Now if the Church be Schismatical, then those who separate in these things are not.
Sect. 16. P. 103. He adds [in the same Books he saith, it is Schismatical in a Church to deny Baptism without the transient Sign of the Cross, or for want of God-fathers, &c. or to deny Communion to such who scruple kneeling. Now if the Church be Schismatical, then those who seperate in these things are not.
Answ. 1. Say you so! Then we are not only quit, but further quit than we can own our selves. I undertake to prove that it may be Schism to separate from a Church that is guilty of some Schismatical Acts and Impositions. And it needs no proof, but the plain History, and their Accusations of one another; that there are few, if any Churches on Earth that are not guilty of somewhat that is Schismatical, in East, West, North or South, in Afric, Asia, Europe or America; Greeks, Muscovites, Jacobites, Abassines, Nestorians, Armenians, Georgians, Mengrelians, Circassians, Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Prelaticalls, Presbyterians, Independents, Anabaptists, &c. And must we separate from them all.
Answ. 1. Say you so! Then we are not only quit, but further quit than we can own our selves. I undertake to prove that it may be Schism to separate from a Church that is guilty of some Schismatical Acts and Impositions. And it needs no proof, but the plain History, and their Accusations of one another; that there are few, if any Churches on Earth that are not guilty of somewhat that is Schismatical, in East, VVest, North or South, in Africk, Asia, Europe or America; Greeks, Muscovites, Jacobites, Abassines, Nestorians, Armenians, Georgians, Mengrelians, Circassians, Papists, Lutherans, Calvinists, Prelaticalls, Presbyterians, Independants, Anabaptists, &c. And must we separate from them all.