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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.
41. And when discontents grow among the Secular subjects, and Civil distempers in the State, each of these parties are fit for the Great ones that head the several Factions to make use of: And by their railing at one another, they become Bellows of the common flames.
42. And it is one of the Devils policies to urge Statesmen to draw the Clergy into their Factions, that which side soever gets the better, one part of the Ministry may not only be silenced and useless, but be made a reproach to their Profession, as the Incendiaries and seditious troublers of the State.
42. And it is one of the Devils policies to urge Statesmen to draw the Clergy into their Factions, that which side soever gets the better, one part of the Ministry may not only be silenced and useless, but be made a reproach to their Profession, as the Incendariies and seditious troublers of the State.
43. It is a great injury to Christianity and the souls of men, when disagreeing States men will not suffer the Clergy to live quietly by them, but will constrain or tempt them to interess themselves in any of their Factions, ⟨p. 202⟩(except in the necessary discharge of their Allegiance and Fidelity to their King and Country) And will force them that are unstudied in humane Laws, to decide those State controversies, even by assertive Oaths, which Lawyers and Parliaments cannot agree about: And it is a […] heinous cruelty and injustice, when after all this, they will pretend that their political differences are controversies in Religion, when it is not so, and will thence denominate parties in the Church.
43. It is a great injury to Christanity and the souls of men, when disagreeing States men will not suffer the Clergy to live quietly by them, but will constrain or tempt them to interess themselves in any of their Factions,