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A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our…
A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's fanatic Prophecy / by Richard Baxter.A third defence of the cause of peace proving 1. the need of our concord, 2. the impossibility of it, on the terms of the present impositions against the accusations and storms of, viz., Mr. John Hinckley, a nameless impleader, a nameless reflector, or Speculum, &c., Mr. John Cheny's second accusation, Mr. Roger L'Strange, justice, &c., the Dialogue between the Pope and a fanatic, J. Varney's phanatic Prophesie / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jacob Sampson, 1681
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§. 3. Here you want Conviction still! If so, I will not undertake to Convince you of any thing in the World which you are unwilling to know. Offer the case to an uninterested Stranger, and take his Judgment. Tell him this Truth [Eighteen hundred Ministers are at once forbidden to Preach Christ according to their Ordination Vow: And when upon that Dedication they had alienated themselves from all other ways of Employment and Livelihood, they and their Families are cast upon Alms in a time of extraordinary poverty, except some of them that had somewhat of their own: None of all these are put out for Ignorance, Insufficiency, or any Crime or scandal at all; But for not subscribing Assent and Consent to all things (without exception) in Three Books written by men that profess that General Councils ⟨p. 7⟩are fallible, even in matters of Faith: And for not declaring, that no man (that vowed it) is obliged to endeavour in his Place and Calling, any alteration of the present Church Government (which some think the unsworn as much bound to endeavour, as to Reform the worst Alehouse or Tavern in the Land: Especially whilst Lay-men Govern by the Keys of Excommunication and Absolution) And for not swearing and unswearing, &c. as is known, with such like things. These Men thus ejected and silenced, are forbidden, upon severe Penalties, Ecclesiastical and Corporal, to speak any thing in depravation of the Government of the Church, the Liturgy or Ceremonies, and under the penalty of total ruin in this World: To say that any man is bound by the National Vow to endeavour any alteration as aforesaid. A Law forbiddeth Printers to Print any unlicensed Book, upon penalty of losing all the Copies, Paper, and Print; besides, answering for all therein contained. The Company in London is called together, and constrained (as holding their Charter by Patent;) to make Laws also among themselves, That any man that Printeth an unlicensed Book, or Leaf, shall lose his Freedom, and become uncapable of their Trade (and so be utterly undone.) A Conforming Minister (for ends best known to himself) Writeth a Book called a Persuasive to Conformity, which containeth not the twentieth part of the Argument commonly before used by others; Saravia, Hammond, Downame, Bilson, Burges, Fulwood, &c.) which the Non-conformists are supposed to have studied:
§. 3. Here you want Conviction still! If so, I will not undertake to Convince you of any thing in the World which you are unwilling to know. Offer the case to an uninterested Stranger, and take his Judgment. Tell him this Truth [Eighteen hundred Ministers are at once forbidden to Preach Christ according to their Ordination Vow: And when upon that Dedication they had alienanated themselves from all other ways of Employment and Livelihood, they and their Families are cast upon Alms in a time of extraordinary poverty, except some of them that had somewhat of their own: None of all these are put out for Ignorance, Insufficiency, or any Crime or scandal at all; But for not subscribing Assent and Consens to all things (without exception) in Three Books written by men that profess that General Councils