A27035:404
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.
2. All that are rightfully Baptized are Christians, (for it is their Christening.) But many rightfully Baptized are no fixed Members of any particular Church. Ergo.
3. He that hath all the Essentials of Christianity is a Christian: But many that are no fixed Members of a particular Church have all the Essentials of Christianity. Ergo.
4. A fortiore, They that are not so much as bound in Duty to be fixed Members of a particular Church, though Baptised, are not unchristened for want of such Membership. But many Baptized person are not so much as bound in Duty to be fixed Members of a particular Church. Ergo. Instances.
1. The Eunuch baptized in his Travails Acts. 9 was only a Member of the Church Universal. 2. Those that were converted by Frumentius and Edesius when there was no particular Church: And all that are first converted in any Infidel or Heathen Land before any Church be formed. 3. Those that by Shipwreck are cast on heathen Countries where no Churches are. 4. Travellers that go from Country to Countries (as Lythgow did nineteen years, and others many.) And I think he unhappily named Jerusalem, where Travellers come that are of no fixed Church (unless he in that also be a Superindependant, and think that men may be many years Members of a Church many hundred miles off, which they have no personal communion with.) 5. Merchants and Factors, who are called to dwell long among Infidels where are no Churches. 6. Ambassadors who by their Princes are sent to reside among such, much of their lives. 7. Wanderers that have no fixed habitations; as many Peddlers and other poor wandering Tradesmen, and loose Beggars that have no Dwelling. 8. Those that live among Papists or any other Christians who impose some sin as a condition of communion. 9. Those that live among such Christians as have no true Pastors who are constitutive parts