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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
AN ANSWER TO Dean STILINGFLEETS, &c. › Chapter 8: What the National Church of England is?
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.
Answ. 1. So here we have a Diffusiv• Church and its Representative, but no Government of either, as a Church, mentioned, but the Civil.
2. And they can be no Governors merely as Representing those that are no Governors themselves. Not as the peoples Representatives; fo• they are no Church Governors (whatever elsewhere he saith like ⟨p. 117⟩a Brownist of the Keys being given to Peter as representing the whole Church.). Not as the Presbyters representatives; For, 1. They are denied Episcopal power, 2. And they are Governors at most but of their particular Churches; and not of the whole. 3. Not as the Bishops representatives, for 1. They are there themselves, 2. And they are no Common Governors of the whole as such.
2. And they can be no Governours meerly as Representing those that are no Governours themselves. Not as the peoples Representatives; fo• they are no Church Governours (whatever elsewhere he saith like ⟨p. 117⟩a Brownist of the Keys being given to Peter as representing the whole Church.). Not as the Presbyters representatives; For, 1. They are denied Episcopal power, 2. And they are Governours at most but of their particular Churches; and not of the whole. 3. Not as the Bishops representatives, for 1. They are there themselves, 2. And they are no Common Governours of the whole as such.
3. If he mean that the two Convocations when they consent become the One Common Constitutive Governing Power of the National Church, this is intelligible, but 1. He after denieth any such; 2. And then their dissent would dissolve the Church, and one Convocation not oblige it; (with much more such.)