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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.
3. Doth this Political description of Parochial, Diocesan, Provincial, Patriarchal Churches, also bring in Popery?
3. Doth this Political description of Parochial, Diocesane, Provincial, Patriarchal Churches, also bring in Popery?
4. Then either our Archbishops have no power, or they have it from no superior, or else they infer a Pope.
4. Then either our Archbishops have no power, or they have it from no superiour, or else they infer a Pope.
5. I again tell the Doctor as I did Mr. Cheny; It is disingenuous to say this to me, when I have written so much against Johnson the Priest, in my first, and specially my second answer, which none replieth to, without any confutation or notice of it▪ I have fully proved that Christ's Catholic Church hath himself for an Essential Head, sometime visible on earth, leaving visible Laws, and now visible to the Courtiers in Heaven, and coming visibly to judge all; and there is no other. Indeed if the doctrine of Mr. Dodwell and many such hold, who deny that the power floweth immediately from Christs Law or Charter to the Church, and not from the Ordainers or Electors, who do but determine of the Receiver and Invest him, then all the Doctors in England cannot answer the Digression, Cap. 14. of the Book called [The Catholic Hierarchy,] proving that such a Prelatical subordination of Churches, inferreth a Pope: But I have fully showed the vanity of that inference as to us.
5. I again tell the Doctor as I did Mr. Cheny; It is disingenious to say this to me, when I have written so much against Johnson the Priest, in my first, and specially my second answer, which none replyeth to, without any confutation or notice of it I have fully proved that Christ's Catholick Church hath himself for an Essential Head, sometime visible on earth, leaving visible Laws, and now visible to the Courtiers in Heaven, and coming visibly to judge all; and there is no other. Indeed if the doctrine of Mr. Dodwell and many such hold, who deny that the power floweth immediately from Christs Law or Charter to the Church, and not from the Ordainers or Electors, who do but determine of the Receiver and Invest him, then all the Doctors in England cannot answer the Digression, Cap. 14. of the Book called [The Catholick Hierarchy,] proving that such a Prelatical subordination of Churches, inferreth a Pope: But I have fully shewed the vanity of that inference as to us.