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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.
Discourse of Idolatry of Rome, p. 7. [Though we know not what allowances God will make for invincible ignorance, we are sure that wilful Ignorance or CHOOSING A WORSE CHURCH BEFORE A BETTER IS A DAMNABLE SIN and unrepented of destroys Salvation.
DIscourse of Idolatry of Rome, p. 7. [Though we know not what allowances God will make for invincible ignorance, we are sure that willful Ignorance or CHOOSING A WORSE CHURCH BEFORE A BETTER IS A DAMNABLE SIN and unrepented of destroys Salvation.
The Papists consent, p. 43. [I agree so far with him, that every Christian is bound to choose the Communion of the purest Church: but which that Church is, must be seen by the grounds it brings to prove the Doctrines it teaches to have been delivered by Christ and his Apostles. That Church is to be judged purest that hath the best ground•, and consequently it is of necessity to Salvation to embrace the Communion of it.
Pag. 194. 195. [1. The Churches power is only to Edification and not to destruction: For this was as much as the Apostles challenged to themselves; and I hope none dare challenge more: But this is a principle of Natural reason, that no power in a society ought to be extended ⟨p. 2⟩[…] the […] of it, or to contradict the end and design of it. 2. The Apostles were the most competent Judges of what made for the Edification of the Church.]
Pag. 194. 195. [1. The Churches power is only to Edification and not to distruction: For this was as much as the Apostles challenged to themselves; and I hope none dare challenge more: But this is a principle of Natural reason, that no power in a society ought to be extended