A27035:864
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.
Answ. But if this be not true, or be a deceiving intimation, you should not allow your self to write it. My words are in Christ. Direct. q. 113. p. 876. When I had named 21 Cases in which an Image may not be used, (and among the rest, when it is scandalous, or tempting to superstition, &c.) I named many Cases in which an Image may be used; and say [that it is not unlawful to pray before or towards an Image, in a Room where they are placed only for Ornament, &c.] Is this to say, (worship may be directed to it? or that we may kneel before a Crucifix;) when I had before excepted the Images of ⟨p. 157⟩God, Christ, &c. in worship, on several reasons? Doth any Protestant doubt of what I assert? My Parlour hath on all four sides the pictures of our living friends: must I not pray in that room because my face will be still towards some of them? Doth he doubt of this? Or is not his citing one half of the words as he doth, to deceive his credulous Reader, if not worse?
§. 10. He saith, Kneeling before a Crucifix is lawful to him supposing the mind be only excited by it.
Answ. A Calumny made up by setting together two scraps of remote sentences. 1. Because I say it's lawful to pray in a room where pictures (not any) are before me, for meet ornament, therefore he feigns me to say, It's lawful to kneel before a Crucifix. 2. And elsewhere I say, It is lawful to be excited to a good thought by seeing a Deaths-head, or any of Gods works, and so it is by seeing a Crucifix; (which no sober Christian doubts of) he feigns me to make it an exciting sign to him that kneels before it.