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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.
75. The Apostle having so clearly and fully decided the case before us, in Rom. 14. & 15. against either censuring or despising one another for things indifferent, we cannot wonder that they, who will neither understand nor stand to this decision, will neither understand nor be satisfied with our most cogent arguments.
76. They that say that the Apostle doth not speak there of things indifferent after they are imposed by authority, say very true; Because he there taketh away that very subject, and preventeth all such cases, while he determineth ⟨p. 170⟩that such things should not be so imposed, but so far left free, that none may be rejected out of Church Communion for them, nor any censured or despised for them.
77. They that say the Apostle doth not forbid such Impositions there, cannot see day for light.
1. If he forbid censuring, despising and not receiving one another, and command dissenters to receive one another, then he forbiddeth such imposition as is inconsistent herewith. But the antecedent is plain in the text, Ergo.—