A97353:404
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.
CHAP. V.
The Conformity of our Doctrine of obedience to the Constitution of this Kingdom, the Doctrine and Canons of the Church, and the judgement of the most Learned and Loyal Prelates.
§. 1. IF I own that political doctrine which is justified by these three: I. The constitution of this Monarchy, II. The Articles of Religion and Canons of the Church, III. And the judgment of those Prelates who have been accounted the most Loyal and Learned of their order, and the most hot and strong defenders of it, I suppose such doctrine will be vindicated from the charge of Nonconformity.
§. 2. But I find that the first is a point not agreed on by all, viz. what the constitution of the Kingdom is; while Parliaments have claimed that as their Power and privilege which the King hath denied to be theirs; and the King hath claimed that as his power and prerogative which Parliaments have denied to be such. Therefore I (that am very unfit to judge between them) must take up with that which is on both hands agreed on. And that I will take only as in the Kings own words, in his answers to the Parliament 1641 in several of his Declarations.