A27035:994
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
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§. 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.
§. 5. As to his praise of the Bishops Writings against Popery, I had rather magnifie 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.
As to the folly of calling that Popery which is not, I have said more against it in my Cath. Theology than he hath done.
As to the folly of calling that Popery which is not, I have said more against it in my Cath. Theologie than he hath done.