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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.
39. These two sorts of enemies have still used by their extremes, to increase their several sins by their fierce opposition to each other: The Sectary justifieth all his divisions and […] by saying [light hath no communion with darkness; nor sincere believers with proud, profane, ignorant and malignant persecuting usurpers, that obtrude themselves on the stock of Christ against their wills]: And the other extreme hath been used to justify their idleness, ungodliness and cruelties, by saying [These rebellious, factious, disobedient people, are enemies to peace and order, and commit all insolent villainies ⟨p. 201⟩against their Pastors, while they account themselves the only Saints.] And so while neither side observeth that which is good in the other, but both sides aggravate the evil (with which they are both too much corrupted) they keep up wars and contentions in the Church, and make one another mad and miserable, the one sort censuring, and the other despising, as they in Rom. 14. 1, 2, 3. And in their rage the sober standers by are reviled and falsely accused by both, as the interest of each party dictates to their spleen; And must patiently suffer the reproaches of their fury.
39. These two sorts of enemies have still used by their extreams, to increase their several sins by their fierce opposition to each other: The Sectary justifieth all his divisions and 〈…〉 by saying [light hath no communion with darkness; nor sincere believers with proud, profane, ignorant and malignant persecuting usurpers, that obtrude themselves on the stock of Christ against their wills]: And the other extream hath been used to justifie their idleness, ungodliness and cruelties, by saying [These rebellious, factious, disobedient people, are enemies to peace and order, and commit all insolent villanies ⟨p. 201⟩against their Pastors, while they account themselves the only Saints.] And so while neither side observeth that which is good in the other, but both sides aggravate the evil (with which they are both too much corrupted) they keep up wars and contentions in the Church, and make one another mad and miserable, the one sort censuring, and the other despising, as they in