A27035:990
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.
And as for his Origenism, as I like it not▪ so I confess in matters of that nature, I can better bear with the venturousness of dissenters, than hereticators can do.
And as for his Origenisme, as I like it not▪ so I confess in matters of that nature, I can better bear with the venturousness of dissenters, than hereticators can do.
But when I saw this Rag called a Letter left behind him, my grief for him was doubled: And I saw what cause we have all to fear the snares of a flattering world, and what cause to pray for Divine preservation, and for an unbiased mind, and a humble sense of our own frailty, that we may neither over-value prosperity, nor our own understandings.
But when I saw this Rag called a Letter left behind him, my grief for him was doubled: And I saw what cause we have all to fear the snares of a flattering world, and what cause to pray for Divine preservation, and for an unbyassed mind, and a humble sense of our own frailty, that we may neither over-value prosperity, nor our own understandings.
I did not think that he that had wrote the Vanity of Dogmatizing could so soon have come to persuade men in power, that dissenting from our Churches dogmatizing and imposed words, forms and ceremonies was worthy of so severe a prosecution of us, as he describeth: and that all their danger is from the forbearing such prosecution of us; and that (though for their own ends he could abate us some little matters) the only way to settled peace is vigorously to execute the Laws against us.
I did not think that he that had wrote the Vanity of Dogmatizing could so soon have come to perswade men in power, that dissenting from our Churches dogmatizing and imposed words, formes and ceremonies was worthy of so severe a prosecution of us, as he describeth: and that all their danger is from the forbearing such prosecution of us; and that (though for their own ends he could abate us some little matters) the only way to settled peace is vigorously to execute the Laws against us.