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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.
86. And it is no small mischief, that the King (and his Magistrates) should be so greatly wronged in his Subjects; to be put to Govern a divided people, when they might easily have an united people to govern. Besides the comfort, ease and honour of Ruling an United people, and the sadness, difficulty and reflections on the contrary, ⟨p. 180⟩Who can be sure, or imagine that we shall never have a foreign enemy, or that the King will never have any use for the Union and concord of his Subjects, for their readier and surer defence of him and of themselves? And who knoweth not how usually divided Cities and Kingdoms have been a prey to common enemies?
86. And it is no small mischief, that the King (and his Magistrates) should be so greatly wronged in his Subjects; to be put to Govern a divided people, when they might easily have an united people to govern. Besides the comfort, ease and honour of Ruling an Vnited people, and the sadness, difficulty and reflections on the contrary, ⟨p. 180⟩Who can be sure, or imagine that we shall never have a foreign enemy, or that the King will never have any use for the Union and concord of his Subjects, for their readier and surer defence of him and of themselves? And who knoweth not how usually divided Cities and Kingdoms have been a prey to common enemies?
87. And if Bishops above all men, who think that Unity is the very reason of their order and Office, should have less wit for, or care of the Kingdom of Christ, than the Devil himself hath of his own, who knoweth that if it be divided it cannot stand, Mat. 12. what friends to Unity can such men be?
87. And if Bishops above all men, who think that Vnity is the very reason of their order and Office, should have less wit for, or care of the Kingdom of Christ, than the Devil himself hath of his own, who knoweth that if it be divided it cannot stand,