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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.
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, Mat. 12. what friends to Unity can such men be?
88. All the arguments for Unity and Peace which are made use of against Toleration by the Prelatists, and all the mischiefs of Division which they aggravate, if it prove that they are the greatest causes of Division, and hinderers of Church concord, do principally fall upon themselves. It is an easy song for any man to sing [O the manifold mischiefs of Division]; And a ready staff to strike any dissenter with, for him that can but get the handle. The Romanists use it with as much vehemency and Spleen against the Protestants. But all the question is, who is the true cause? and what is the true cure?
88. All the arguments for Vnity and Peace which are made use of against Toleration by the Prelatists, and all the mischiefs of Division which they aggravate, if it prove that they are the greatest causes of Division, and hinderers of Church concord, do principally fall upon themselves. It is an easie song for any man to sing [O the manifold mischiefs of Division]; And a ready staff to strike any dissenter with, for him that can but get the handle. The Romanists use it with as much vehemency and Spleen against the Protestants. But all the question is, who is the true cause? and what is the true cure?