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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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1. From Reason, p. 23. Though the Universal Church be built upon a Rock, yet particular Churches are subject to Dilapidations, &c. Ergo.
1. From Reason, p. 23. Though the Ʋniversal Church be built upon a Rock, yet particular Churches are subject to Dilapidations, &c. Ergo.
A. In matters belonging to the House of God, I thought the will ⟨p. 89⟩of him that built the House, and is Lord over it, should first have been consulted: His will hath reason in it, we are sure; but for our reasons, they will put no end to the debate, for one thinks his reason is as good as another, Quot capita, tot sententiae It is Instituted worship we are upon, depending upon the positive command of the Law giver. But however I deny your consequence: And that,
1st. 1From the woeful experience the Church hath found of your Repairers; these having been as great causes of the Dilapidations, as any other. That Bishops have been both great Schismatics and Heretics, Bellarmine will tell you. What woeful work these have made in the Church of England in our time, we do still remember; but I will spare names, let them alone in their graves. Musculus (not an English Nonconformist) from the experience the Church had found of the mischiefs it suffered by these Repairers, 2sound out to prevent and heal Schism, as Hierom tells us, saith, Had Hierom lived to these days to see how this counsel of setting up the Bishop above the Presbyter hath profited the Church, he would have acknowledged it was not the counsel of the Holy Ghost to take away Schism, as was pretended, but the counsel of the Devil, &c. Thus he, with much more he adds.