A27035:438
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. 26. But the great offence is p. 130 that I insinuate that the whole Body of the Church is guilty of great Faults, Conformity being a scandalous thing with thirty tremendous Aggravations.—And no wonder if men so judging prefer others, &c. Answ. Again and again I say, 1. This is unrighteous dealing; To impose all those things on us; To cast us out of the Ministry and Churches for not obeying: To Fine and imprison us, and accuse us as Schismatics and Seditions, To write and preach for the execution of the Laws against us, to our Ruin: To aggravate our Crime because we tell them not our Reasons; To call us to tell them what we stick at; To threaten to get the King to force us to give our Reasons; To declare in Press and Pulpit that we wilfully keep up a Schism and have nothing to say for it; To continue all this when we have been silent seventeen years, as fearing that they could not bear it; And after all this when we disavowed any Accusation of them, and only told them what we feared our selves, to come upon us with this charge of deep accusing their Conformity, is injustice if there be any in the World. Either it is sin or no sin which we fear. If none, why are we not confuted? or invited yet to give our proofs? If sin, who should be most offended? To be yet plainer with you, had the case been in the times of the old Prophets and Priests, I question whether to let such a Kingdom alone so long in that which we judge to be so great sins, would not have been heavily charged on the Preachers: And I profess that my conscience is more in doubt whether my so long forbearance was not my sin, than whether saying at last what I did was sin: And I had nothing to satisfy it, but the men that I ought to judge wiser than my self, persuaded me that it would have done more hurt than good, and caused but our further rending, And I think […] ⟨p. 84⟩[…] ⟨p. 85⟩[…] ⟨p. 86⟩[…] ⟨p. 87⟩[…] ⟨p. 88⟩[…] ⟨p. 89⟩⟨p. 90⟩