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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.
17. We take not men to be good because they are not conformable; nor do we disown any of the people for their conformity to your worship, Ceremonies and discipline, as if they were not the members of Christ; or were to be despised or censured by others. But instead of speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after us (as seducers do, Act. 20. 30.) we labour to speak the words of truth and soberness, and keep to the form of sound and ancient doctrine, (even that which semper, ubique & ab omnibus recepta est, as Lirinensis Characterizeth Catholic verity) and to avoid novelties and vain janglings and inflaming the hearers against Bishops, ⟨p. 192⟩Liturgy or Ceremonies, or against each other; But rebuke those that for such differences censure or despise each other, Rom. 14. 1, 2, 3. And exhort them to reverence and obedience to Governors, especially Loyalty to the King, to Love to all men, and to Unity with the whole Catholic Church, and to peace among themselves.
17. We take not men to be good because they are not conformable; nor do we disown any of the people for their conformity to your worship, Ceremonies and discipline, as if they were not the members of Christ; or were to be despised or censured by others. But instead of speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after us (as seducers do, Act. 20. 30.) we labour to speak the words of truth and soberness, and keep to the form of sound and ancient doctrine, (even that which semper, ubique & ab omnibus recepta est, as Lirinensis Characterizeth Catholick verity) and to avoid novelties and vain janglings and inflaming the hearers against Bishops, ⟨p. 192⟩Liturgy or Ceremonies, or against each other; But rebuke those that for such differences censure or despise each other, Rom. 14. 1, 2, 3. And exhort them to reverence and obedience to Governors, especially Loyalty to the King, to Love to all men, and to Unity with the whole Catholick Church, and to peace among themselves.