A27035:977
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.
If not so, How to know that our silencing Laws and Bishops must be obeyed, and not theirs?
There is no understanding their answers, till we know how the case was stated.
§. 2. Mr. Clodes Letter is moderate, and it's like they took the case to be about proper separation, and so say no more in the main than some Nonconformists have said against the Brownists. But the Dr. hath dealt too unmercifully with Mr. Le Moine in publishing his Epistle, when it was so easy to know how few, if any, would believe his story, but take it for a confirmation, how incredible our accusers are? I mean his story that [five years ago he heard one of the most famous Nonconformists preach in a place where were three men, and three or fourscore women: he had chosen a Text about the building up the ruins of Jerusalem, and for explication cited Pliny and Vitruvius a hundred times, &c.] I think I shall never speak with the person that will believe him: sure I am, London knoweth that the Nonconformists are the most averse to such kind of Preaching. And I know not one of them that I can say ever ⟨p. 173⟩read a quarter of Vitruvius: I confess I never read a leaf of him. This Monsieur would do well to tell us yet the name of the man, that if living he may be called to account: But I doubt he fell into some Tabernacle, of which many are erected in place of the burnt Churches, and perhaps heard the Conformist who had occasion to talk of architecture? But yet I will not believe that either Conformist or Nonconformist would expose himself to common scorn by an hundred or twenty such citations.
§. 2. Mr. Clodes Letter is moderate, and it's like they took the case to be about proper separation, and so say no more in the main than some Nonconformists have said against the Brownists. But the Dr. hath dealt too unmercifully with Mr. Le Moine in publishing his Epistle, when it was so easie to know how few, if any, would believe his story, but take it for a confirmation, how incredible our accusers are? I mean his story that [five years ago he heard one of the most famous Nonconformists preach in a place where were three men, and three or fourscore women: he had chosen a Text about the building up the ruins of Jerusalem, and for explication cited Plinny and Vitruvius a hundred times, &c.] I think I shall never speak with the person that will believe him: sure I am, London knoweth that the Nonconformists are the most averse to such kind of Preaching. And I know not one of them that I can say ever