A69536:143
The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality
London : s.n., 1676
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.
5. And we would ask them, Whether they live not themselves in the practice of the contrary? Do not all Sects, even Quakers, meet at the Place and Time which their Leaders do appoint them? Do they not hear the words which the Leader chooseth for their Ears? Do they not command their own Servants and Children things or circumstances antecedently indifferent?
5. And we would ask them, Whether they live not themselves in the practice of the contrary? Do not all Sects, even Quakers, meet at the Place and Time which their Leaders do appoint them? Do they not hear the words which the Leader chuseth for their Ears? Do they not command their own Servants and Children things or circumstances antecedently indifferent?
Did we hold such Principles, we should have less reason to lament the sin of those who have of late written Accusations against us, as Subverters of Government, Order, and Obedience: And if any one can find any word of such importance, in any one called a meer Non-conformist (which we know not of,) we have no more to do with it, than the Church of England hath with words of Untruth, Call[…]mny, Error, or Non-sense, which we read in the Books, or hear in the words of any Conformists: ⟨p. 40⟩(of which we are not willing to imitate such as gather Catalogues or Dunghills of them:) And the rather because, 1. We Licensed not such Books: 2. Nor Ordained such to the sacred Ministry: 3. Nor have the Government of them; and therefore are not responsible for them.
Did we hold such Principles, we should have less reason to lament the sin of those who have of late written Accusations against us, as Subverters of Government, Order, and Obedience: And if any one can find any word of such importance, in any one called a meer Non-conformist (which we know not of,) we have no more to do with it, than the Church of England hath with words of Untruth, Cal〈…〉mny, Errour, or Non-sense, which we read in the Books, or hear in the words of any Conformists: ⟨p. 40⟩