A27035:72
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.
ADVERTISEMENT.
There is lately Published a Book of the same Authors, called, A Search for the English schismatic, by the Case and Characters 1. Of the Diocesan Canoneers. 2. Of the Present Mere Nonconformists. Not as an Accusation of the former, but a necessary Defence of the latter, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them. And is to be sold by Nevill Simmons, at the Sign of the Three Golden Cocks at the West-end of St. Pauls.
THere is lately Published a Book of the same Authors, called, A Search for the English schismatick, by the Case and Characters 1. Of the Diocesan Canoneers. 2. Of the Present Meer Nonconformists. Not as an Accusation of the former, but a necessary Defence of the latter, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them. And is to be sold by Nevill Simmons, at the Sign of the Three Golden Cocks at the West-end of St. Pauls.
THE CONTENTS.
AN Historical Preface: Dr. Stillingfleet's judgment as in his Irenicon. A Premised explication of the equivocal word Church. What the Catholic Church is in our judgment, and what in the judgment of many of our silencers.— Chap. 1. Dr. Stillingfleet's large and plain Asserting of our principles in his Defence of Archbishop Laud, and Rom. Idolatry. p. 1. Chap. 2. Some Animadversions on his Preface: Whether the Jesuits first brought in Spiritual Prayer. A full explication of our judgment about Spiritual Prayer. His hard terms against mens (high or low) choosing Tutors for their Children.— p. 11. Chap. 3. Dr. Stillingfleet his Accusations examined: His confusion; disputing a question not stated: What he means by [Our Church] by Communion] by [Constant] by [Withdrawing] by [Separate Congregations] what Separation I am for or against. Whether he say true, that my Tremendous aggravations of the sin of Conforming were written without the least provocation on their part: or that as designed to represent the Clergy as notorious Lying perjured Villains, p. 22. &c. Chap. 4. His false History of the old Nonconformists: as if Bancroft's Danger. Posit. Heylin, and all such old accusers, utterly belied them, and the Canons made against them had a false supposition: his citations examined: More proof of his falsification: The difference between the Nonconformists and the Brownists. How we are used by them. The Reformatio Legum Eccles. how much for discipline. I now add my request to the Reader that would know how far the first Reformers were of the Nonconformists mind, and against our new Church-men, that they would but read Cranmers, and the other Drs. words cited by Dr. Stillingfleet in the end of his Irenicon (and left out of Dr. Burnet's History) and Bucer's