A27035:737
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.
Hierome and Eutychius Alexand. tell you that the Presbyters chose and made the Bishops as the Army doth a General: which made Arch-Bishop ⟨p. 139⟩Usher tell King Charles the First, That the Presbyters at Alexandria did more than Ordain Presbyters, for they made Bishops (as he told me himself.) But 1. We never denied that the Come-provincial Bishops ordinarily afterwards Ordained them, 2. Nor that the Presbyters chose them. Did the Doctor think this was to the purpose? But 1. Doth he think that the Presbyters choice excludeth the Peoples when it is a known thing that the Canons and Custom constantly conjoined them?
Hierome and Eutychius Alexand. tell you that the Presbyters chose and made the Bishops as the Army doth a General: which made Arch-Bishop ⟨p. 139⟩Usher tell King Charles the First, That the Presbyters at Alexandria did more than Ordain Presbyters, for they made Bishops (as he told me himself.) But 1. We never denied that the Com-provincial Bishops ordinarily afterwards Ordained them, 2. Nor that the Presbyters chose them. Did the Doctor think this was to the purpose? But 1. Doth he think that the Presbyters choice excludeth the Peoples when it is a known thing that the Canons and Custom constantly conjoyned them?
2. Will he conclude that when ever History nameth not the Peoples choice, they are left out?
3. Will he persuade us when the People are not the choosers, that they are not necessarily the consenters or refusers?
3. Will he perswade us when the People are not the chusers, that they are not necessarily the consenters or refusers?