A27035:842
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.
2. Sure the Cross of Christ with his dying on it, expressed also in the words of the Canon, is Grace. To represent or signify Christ dying on the Cross (which are the words and use) is immediately to represent or signify the very Grace of Redemption it self.
2. Sure the Cross of Christ with his dying on it, exprest also in the words of the Canon, is Grace. To represent or signifie Christ dying on the Cross (which are the words and use) is immediately to represent or signifie the very Grace of Redemption it self.
3. To be listed under Christ as the Captain of our Salvation, and to be received into the Congregation of Christs flock, to fight under his banner, &c. are all great Grace.
4. The moral operation on the soul which the preface of the Liturgy ascribes to the Ceremonies, is Grace to be wrought by them.
5. To make a common symbol or badge of Christianity, solemnly obliging as a Covenanting sign, by which they must be distinguished from Infidels, and this even at our first Covenanting with Christ, is to make a Sacrament in the old sense. What was the Soldiers Sacramentum Militare more, from which the Church seems to have borrowed the name? The Oath was obliging; The colours or cingulum was obliging and a signifying badge: The good received was the honour, relation and hope of future pay or preferment upon performance. And is not all this in ours?