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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.
§. 52. p. 330. But saith he, Anabaptists, Quakers, and all may pretend a care of their Souls, and so leave the Minister only the Temple and Tithes.
§. 52. p. 330. But saith he, Anabaptists, Quakers, and all may pretend a care of their Souls, and so leave the Minister only the Temple and Tythes.
Answ. 1. And Anabaptists and Quakers will have a care of their Souls, when you have said and done all you can against it: A prison will not overcome it.
2. So Turks, Socinians, Papists, (or Anabaptists if you will) when they get into power, may pretend that they are fitter to be trusted with mens Souls, than men with their own: And so Prelates may say: But is nothing true that men can abuse and misapply?
And to me it is something, though it should be nothing to you, 1. That nature obligeth and disposeth every man more to care for his own soul, than it doth the Patron to care for others. 2. That many hundred or thousand men are not all so like to mistake and miscarry about their own Souls, as one Patron is that is far from their hearts. 3. That it is a matter more dangerous to trust thousands in one hand than in many (as it would be in a storm to put all into one boat.) If that man miscarry he endangereth multitudes: If another man miscarry it is but for one.