A27046:91
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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I do firmly believe without hesitation, that the generality of them would have been resolved Non-conformists at this time, not changing their judgment, but because of the ⟨p. 55⟩great Change of Conformity: For I know that Cornelius Burges, the Learned Gataker, Dr. Robert Harris, and almost all the late Westminster Assembly, were formerly such kind of Conformists as these were: And I know the same Non-conformists now (though not many) would have yielded to the old Conformity. Yea more, I am persuaded that were Rogers, Bradford, Sanders, &c. Yea Bishop Hooper, Bishop Farrar, and Bishop Latimer alive now, they would all choose rather to burn at a Stake again, than to do what is required of us. Say not that I reproach the Laws, for I only speak of the matter of Fact; whether they or the present Bishops were the wiser, I meddle not. Yea more, yet I much doubt, whether all the Bishops of England now would Conform themselves as Ministers do, if they were put to it? For I suppose you to know, that they are not put to the Declarations and Subscriptions, as the Ministers were, nor to their Oaths: But in this I am not confident, but only doubt. But of such old Conformists as Bolton, Whateley, &c. I make no doubt at all. 3. But your Proof is, That he received Absolution according to the Church of England. Answer, Is this proving? So would I do: yea, I do receive the Lords Supper according to the Liturgy. Am I therefore a Conformist? Doth it follow that he would swear, subscribe, declare, use the Image of the Cross as a symbol of Christianity, &c.
I do firmly believe without hesitation, that the generality of them would have been resolved Non-conformists at this time, not changing their judgment, but because of the ⟨p. 55⟩great Change of Conformity: For I know that Cornelius Burges, the Learned Gataker, Dr. Robert Harris, and almost all the late Westminster Assembly, were formerly such kind of Conformists as these were: And I know the same Non-conformists now (though not many) would have yielded to the old Conformity. Yea more, I am perswaded that were Rogers, Bradford, Sanders, &c. Yea Bishop Hooper, Bishop Farrar, and Bishop Latimer alive now, they would all choose rather to burn at a Stake again, than to do what is required of us. Say not that I reproach the Laws, for I only speak of the matter of Fact; whether they or the present Bishops were the wiser, I meddle not. Yea more, yet I much doubt, whether all the Bishops of England now would Conform themselves as Ministers do, if they were put to it? For I suppose you to know, that they are not put to the Declarations and Subscriptions, as the Ministers were, nor to their Oaths: But in this I am not confident, but only doubt. But of such old Conformists as Bolton, Whateley, &c. I make no doubt at all. 3. But your Proof is, That he received Absolution according to the Church of England. Answer, Is this proving? So would I do: yea, I do receive the Lords Supper according to the Liturgie. Am I therefore a Conformist? Doth it follow that he would swear, subscribe, declare, use the Image of the Cross as a symbole of Christianity, &c.