A27035:812
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.
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.
3. To have a self-saving power, and to have a self-destroying power, differ (with men that hate not distinction.) So little can a man know what we say by this Doctors Answers, that a stranger would think by him that we were quite of another mind. I never said Quakers or any others may have whom they will: If they choose men uncapable, the neighbour Bishops or the Clergy may admonish them, and renounce his Communion; And the Magistrate may restrain him and refuse to tolerate an intolerable man: And yet the people ought not to accept an uncapable man offered by Bishops or Patrons; no nor a man next to uncapable when they need and may have much better. Many Negatives are safe.
3. To have a self-saving power, and to have a self-destroying power, differ (with men that hate not distinction.) So little can a man know what we say by this Doctors Answers, that a stranger would think by him that we were quite of another mind. I never said Quakers or any others may have whom they will: If they chuse men uncapable, the neighbour Bishops or the Clergy may admonish them, and renounce his Communion; And the Magistrate may restrain him and refuse to tolerate an intolerable man: And yet the people ought not to accept an uncapable man offered by Bishops or Patrons; no nor a man next to uncapable when they need and may have much better. Many Negatives are safe.