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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.
Quest. Were not Nonconformists even from the beginning of Nonconformity generally very peevish, impudent, censorious, and disobedient to Authority?
Answ. The Old Puritans (if we believe the Historian, and he was a Conformist and a Dignitary) were humble, meek, patient, hospitable, charitable, as in his Censures of, so in his Alms to, ⟨p. 107⟩others. Dr. Full. H. 6.11.220. And if we believe the Author of the Debate, the Ancient Nonconformists were (many of them) men of •ober and peaceful principles, and did submit to Authority, and were enemies to Separation; such were Mr. Ball, Mr. Gear, and all those who were the Authors of that grave and modest Confutation of the Error and Sect of the Brownists, or Separatists, published by Mr. Rathband.
Answ. The Old Puritans (if we believe the Historian, and he was a Conformist and a Dignitary) were humble, meek, patient, hospitable, charitable, as in his Censures of, so in his Alms to, ⟨p. 107⟩others. Dr. Full. H. 6.11.220. And if we be•ieve the Author of the Debate, the Ancient Nonconformists were (many of them) men of •ober and peaceful principles, and did submit to Authority, and were enemies to Separation; such were Mr. Ball, Mr. Geere, and all those who were the Authors of that grave and modest Confutation of the Error and Sect of the Brownists, or Separatists, published by Mr. Rathband.
Quest. Have not some of the High Sons of the Church changed their Principles in relation to King and Parliament?