A27035:871
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. That men may understand it. I'll tell you that you may see the Candour of our accusers. Dr. R. Cox Bishop of Ely consulted with Cassander to have had Images in our Churches. The Lutherans so use them. Our new Church of England began to set up Crucifixes over Altars, and to plead more for Church-pictures than heretofore. In 1642. the ⟨p. 159⟩Parliament ordered the defacing all Images of any Person of the Trinity in Churches or Church-yards, (before the King went from them) Because I read this Order and the Church-warden attempted to obey it, the rabble of drunken swearing Journey-men, who were all for Conformity, rose in a tumult with clubs, seeking to kill me and the Churchwardens, and knocked down two Country-men because they were our friends (who carried the hurt to their death:) And the Conforming Clergy were so much for them, that one of them indicted me at the Assizes, and I was forced to leave the Country. Such rage for Images tempted some religious men that were against them, to be more censorious against the Conformists than I would have them, and to run too near the other extreme: And after it grew a dispute whether the Lutherans were not Heretics (of which see Caspar Streso.) The remembrance of all this drew me to say all the Truth which I thought useful to cure mens over-much censuring the Lutherans and the new Prelatists: And now the thanks they give me is to turn the censure on my self for saying so much to excuse them.
Answ. That men may understand it. I'le tell you that you may see the Candor of our accusers. Dr. R. Coxe Bishop of Ely consulted with Cassander to have had Images in our Churches. The Lutherans so use them. Our new Church of England began to set up Crucifixes over Altars, and to plead more for Church-pictures than heretofore. In 1642. the ⟨p. 159⟩Parliament ordered the defacing all Images of any Person of the Trinity in Churches or Church-yards, (before the King went from them) Because I read this Order and the Church-warden attempted to obey it, the rabble of drunken swearing Journy-men, who were all for Conformity, rose in a tumult with clubs, seeking to kill me and the Churchwardens, and knockt down two Country-men because they were our friends (who carried the hurt to their death:) And the Conforming Clergy were so much for them, that one of them indicted me at the Assizes, and I was forced to leave the Country. Such rage for Images tempted some religious men that were against them, to be more censorious against the Conformists than I would have them, and to run too near the other extream: And after it grew a dispute whether the Lutherans were not Hereticks (of which see Caspar Streso.) The remembrance of all this drew me to say all the Truth which I thought useful to cure mens over-much censuring the Lutherans and the new Prelatists: And now the thanks they give me is to turn the censure on my self for saying so much to excuse them.