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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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But it is far from my intention to produce any new arguments against these Ceremonies, when there are so many produced by Dr. Ames Didochevius, and divers others. It is very observable what Mr. 1Jeans an acute Schoolman and Conformist in former times, who censured the Nonconformists as sharply as any, and wrote against them, while he had read but one side, as he saith, and was a stranger to what the Nonconformists could say for themselves, their adversaries representing their objections and answers so weak, and ridiculous) hath left upon record. When the Parliament began, he intended to write a full vindication of the Discipline and Ceremonies of the then Church of England, to which end he read all such Books of the Nonconformists as he could procure: Upon the perusal of them, saith he, I soon found that their adversaries most disingenuously misrepresented all that they said; that they refused to join issue with them in the state of the question; that they came not up to an ordinary grapple with them with their Arguments; and that they seldom regularly replied unto the solutions which were given to their objections; and this (saith he) quickly produced an alteration in my judgment, and I believe it will do so too in all that will make such an impartial search into the matter as I have done.
- 1Schol. & pract. Divin. 2 par. p. 93, 94.
This is the ingenuous confession of that learned man, making excuse for what he had written against the Nonconformists.
I shall shut up this with the judgment of the learned and pious Whitaker, as I see him quoted, by Maccovius upon this question.
I shall shut up this with the judgment of the learned and pious VVhitaker, as I see him quoted, by Maccovius upon this question.