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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
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. And I will again say, that I will yet suppose the Doctor so humble as to acknowledge himself much inferior to Paulus sarpi servita venerunt, in point of Church History: At least I say to the Reader, peruse what he hath said of this Controversy and of the alteration of Church Government in his History of the Council of Trent, and his Book of Church Benefices, lately translated by Dr. Denton, and doubt if you can.
§. 12. And I will again say, that I will yet suppose the Doctor so humble as to acknowledge himself much inferiour to Paulus sarpi servita venerunt, in point of Church History: At least I say to the Reader, peruse what he hath said of this Controversie and of the alteration of Church Government in his History of the Council of Trent, and his Book of Church Benefices, lately translated by Dr. Denton, and doubt if you can.
§. 13. And in general I add: I. I suppose no man of such reading maketh any doubt of the first 300 years, whether any Bishops were made over any Church without the free Election or Consent of the Flocks and the whole Clergy, and the approbation of the Ordainers. I will not for shame stay to prove this, having said so ⟨image 80⟩much of it in my first Plea for Peace, and Episcopal Church History, which are unanswered.
II. And since the first 300 years, it's so notorious in History that it's a shame to need proof of it, that the Christian Emperors confirmed the Churches in this right and use, and for many hundred years after, permitted and ordered, that Bishops should be chosen by the People, Clergy and Synods, and when the Peoples Election was infringed, the necessity of their consent long continued: And it was only in the choice of the five Patriarchs that the Emperors used to meddle, and that not always, nor at all choosing them alone, but commending some one to the People and Clergy to choose, or confirming some one that they had nominated. And this held on till Popery sprung up.