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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.
10. And as to Convocation consent, how binds it all those that never consented to them? How is the City of London so bound to Conform, when they had not one chosen Clerk (but only the Dignitaries) in the Convocation that made us our Conformity (the two chosen by them being refused by the Bishops.)
11. Will not you pass for an asserter of the Principles of Independency, that not only say, The Keys are given to the whole body, and the Convocation represent the People, &c. but also that England is one Church but by consent, without consenting to any one Constitutive Regent Church head. The Independents are for a National Church merely by confederacy and consent, without National Government of it.
11. Will not you pass for an asserter of the Principles of Independency, that not only say, The Keys are given to the whole body, and the Convocation represent the People, &c. but also that England is one Church but by consent, without consenting to any one Constitutive Regent Church head. The Independants are for a National Church meerly by confederacy and consent, without National Government of it.
12. You go further from the Episcopal Politics than the Presbyterians do: For they make an Aristocratical Regent Part, but you make none.
12. You go further from the Episcopal Politicks than the Presbyterians do: For they make an Aristocratical Regent Part, but you make none.