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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.
He that can think the silencing, and imprisoning of about 2000 such Ministers, is the way to bring this Land to Concord, hath sure very hard thoughts of them in comparison of Conformists. And that you may see how little his judgment against such should weigh with others, who is so lately changed from himself, I will give you here one of several Letters which I had from him, and leave you to judge whether he have proved that he was much wiser at last than when he wrote this? or whether his character of me agree with his motion to silence and ruin all such? I am so far from owning his monstrous praises, that I fear I offended him with sharply rebuking him for them. But lest his wit and virulence here do harm, I give it you to show the unconstancy of his judgment: or if he would have excepted me from his severities, I must profess that I believe the most of the Nonconformable Ministers of my acquaintance are better men than my self; and therefore his excessive praise of me, is the condemnation and shame of his persecuting counsel.
He that can think the silencing, and imprisoning of about 2000 such Ministers, is the way to bring this Land to Concord, hath sure very hard thoughts of them in comparison of Conformists. And that you may see how little his judgment against such should weigh with others, who is so lately changed from himself, I will give you here one of several Letters which I had from him, and leave you to judge whether he have proved that he was much wiser at last than when he wrote this? or whether his character of me agree with his motion to silence and ruine all such? I am so far from owning his monstrous praises, that I fear I offended him with sharply rebuking him for them. But lest his wit and virulence here do harm, I give it you to shew the unconstancy of his judgment: or if he would have excepted me from his severities, I must profess that I believe the most of the Nonconformable Ministers of my acquaintance are better men than my self; and therefore his excessive praise of me, is the condemnation and shame of his persecuting counsel.
§. 5. As to his praise of the Bishops Writings against Popery, I had rather magnify than obscure their deserts: But I am not able to believe that the old ones who write to prove the Pope Antichrist, &c. and the new ones who would bring us to obey him as Patriarch of the West and principium unitatis Catholicae, were of one mind, because both are called Protestants, and that such as Bishop Bramhall and the rest of the defenders of Grotius, were of the same judgment with Bishop Usher, Bishop Morton, Bishop Downame, &c. nor that Grotius, who describeth a Papist to be one that flattereth Popes as if all were right which they said and did, did disclaim Popery in the same sense as the old Church of England did. Two men may cry down Popery, while one of them is a Papist or near one in the others sense.