A97353:17
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
1. I have elsewhere told you, when the King called us to signify our desires in 1660. the Ministers of London were commonly invited to come to Sion College that their common consent might be known: And there we agreed to desire or offer nothing for Church Government, but A. B. Ushers model of the Primitive Episcopal Government as it was then Printed (which to me the A. Bishop owned) And was Usher a Presbyterian? What new names have our adversaries made, as Presbyterian A. Bishops and Primates? Are not all the Dioceses, Lordship, Wealth and Power of Bishops secured in that Model, and is that Presbytery?
1. I have elswhere told you, when the King called us to signifie our desires in 1660. the Ministers of London were commonly invited to come to Sion Colledge that their common consent might be known: And there we agreed to desire or offer nothing for Church Government, but A. B. Ushers model of the Primitive Episcopal Government as it was then Printed (which to me the A. Bishop owned) And was Usher a Presbyterian? What new names have our adversaries made, as Presbyterian A. Bishops and Primates? Are not all the Dioceses, Lordship, Wealth and Power of Bishops secured in that Model, and is that Presbytery?
2. Bishop Reignolds, B. Worth, and Dr. Wallis and other Conformists agreed and joined with us in this Offer. And were these also Presbyterians?
2. Bishop Reignolds, B. Worth, and Dr. Wallis and other Conformists agreed and joyned with us in this Offer. And were these also Presbyterians?
3. When his Majesty would not grant us that model, nor the Bishops once treat about it, he was pleased in his gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs to offer and prescribe the Episcopacy of England as it stood, with little alteration, save that the Parish Ministers consent was allowed to the Confirmation of any in his Parish, and the Rural Dean with the Ministers of his Deanery to meet oft for mere Parish persuasive work, to the scandalous. And this Declaration we joyfully and thankfully accepted, as a hopeful means of common Conformity and Concord. And was this Presbytery too?