A27035:634
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.
§. 8. And now judge how Logically, how honestly the Doctor hath stated the Case, and made me Intolerably indiscreet and tragical against Magistrates, Patrons and Laws. And try if you can understand what it is instead of this, that he would have: I tell him again, that if he deny the necessity of the flocks consent to the mutual relation, he notoriously opposeth the judgment and practice of Antiquity and the Universal Church, of Princes, Patriarchs, Prelates, Councils and People, and fights against the full stream of Historical evidence, for a new crooked way, that would make as many modes of Religion as there are different Princes.
And here he wonders what he said, that occasioned such undecent passion. It seems he felt some passion in reading it, and thought he must have the like that wrote it. And so let any man obtrude any pernicious thing on the Church, and he can easily prove the detector to have undecent passion, for giving a bad Cause its proper name.
§. 9. But he cannot find out the reason of my inference, that then Princes may impose what Religion they please.]
Answ. Not understanding, with some men, goes for confuting: To put [Religion] for the mode of Religion is too little a slip of his to be insisted on. But is not my inference necessary? I urged him to tell me, in what Countries, and under what sort of Princes the Rule holds, that the People must not judge whether the offered Pastors be Heretics, nor refuse them, if Prince and Patron present them? He will not be entreated to tell me. I tell him, that if the Rule be universal, when a Papist, Socinian, Anabaptist, Antiepiscopal, &c. Prince and Patron present men of their own mind, and they are instituted, the People must take and trust them as their Pastors: And is not this to set up in all the Churches what modish Religion Prince and Patron please? Is this hard to be understood?