A44973:159
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…
An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate and the continuation thereof / by a lover of truth and peace.
S.l. : s.n., 1669
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. 'Tis that which the Papists and Semi• Papists, the Quakers, pretend unto; but these I conceive may rather be ranked amongst the Conformists, than the Nonconformists, by the like reason that Seekers and Anabaptists are number a nongst Nonconformists. And here let me insert a short story:
Answ. 'Tis that which the Papists and Semi• P•pists, the Quakers, pretend unto; but these I conceive may rather be ranked amongst the Conformists, than the Nonconformists, by the like reason that Seekers and Anabaptists are numbre a nongst Nonconformists. And here let me inser• a short story:
In the late times, One (now a great Son of th• Church) travelling with two (now Nonconforming) Ministers; he being the Senior Man and Minister was desired to pray with them and for them, before they went to Bed: this he did; and in his Prayed, ⟨p. 69⟩That God would send them Godly Dreams that night. On occasion whereof, one of the Ministers said to the other, He did not like this over-Godliness; he that would over-godly it, would undergodly it.
If any Nonconforming-Ministers have been superstitiously observers of Dreams, it may be queried whether the late Little Great Archbishop of Canterbury was not guilty of the same fault also.