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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.
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?
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 meer Parish perswasive 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?
4. That this might might not pass as the private Act of a few, a meeting of the London Ministers was desired to give the King thanks for this Declaration in signification of their consent, which was done, and at that meeting there were but two dissenting Votes, and those two (both dead) professed their thankful acceptance, though they subscribed not.
5. Uncontradicted fame told us that the House of Commons gave the King their public thanks for that his care so to unite his people. And if that House of Commons also were Presbyterians, I know not who is not.
5. Vncontradicted fame told us that the House of Commons gave the King their publick thanks for that his care so to unite his people. And if that House of Commons also were Presbyterians, I know not who is not.