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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.
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.
13. I doubt some Statesmen will be angry with you, that say there is no power of Church Government in England, but from the King as Head (as Crumpt•• before Cousins Tables, and others ordinarily.)
14. Do you make England in essentials any more one Church, than England and any Foreigners agreeing are one? Did the Synod of D•rt make us one with them? Do large Councils make many Nations one Church? Did the Heptarchy make England one Kingdom, when seven Kings Governed the whole by parts, but none the whole, as such?
15. I beseech you think what you have done against the Parochial, Diocesan and Provincial Churches in England. Have none of these, have not each of these a Regent Constitutive part? Are none of them true Churches in sensu politico? You dare not say, No. If they are, You have said that visible Churches as Parts unavoidably require a visible Head to the whole (by which I bring in the Pope, because you think Christ will not serve the turn:) And do you not say that all these Churches are parts of the Church of England? And if you deny it to have one Regent part, do you not then either destroy the rest, or use the name Church equivocally to these several sorts so heterogeneal?