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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
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§. 2. What the Papists principles are, is so largely proved by Henry Fowlis, and by Doctor Barlow, the present ⟨p. 2⟩worthy Bishop of Lincoln, after many others, that no addition is necessary; but that such as the Counterminer and many others in Press and Pulpit should lay somewhat like it to the charge either of the present Nonconformists, or to Nonconformists as such, and cry out to Rulers and people, as they love their power, Estates and lives not to tolerate us (that is, to destroy or banish us) and specially that the Parliament in the beginning of the Oxford Act which banisheth us from Corporations, should leave on record such suspicions of us as the reason of their Act, are things that have long seemed to me to make such a Defence our duty, as tendeth to the satisfaction of the suspecters and accusers; Lest we seem 1. To own the charge, 2. and thereby tempt the people to think that we take not rebellion for a sin; 3. or to despise both the Law-makers, their Laws, and the said Preachers that thus accuse us.
§. 2. What the Papists principles are, is so largly proved by Henry Fowlis, and by Doctor Barlow, the present ⟨p. 2⟩worthy Bishop of Lincoln, after many others, that no addition is necessary; but that such as the Counterminer and many others in Press and Pulpit should lay somewhat like it to the charge either of the present Nonconformists, or to Nonconformists as such, and cry out to Rulers and people, as they love their power, Estates and lives not to tolerate us (that is, to destroy or banish us) and specially that the Parliament in the beginning of the Oxford Act which banisheth us from Corporations, should leave on record such suspicions of us as the reason of their Act, are things that have long seemed to me to make such a Defence our duty, as tendeth to the satisfaction of the suspecters and accusers; Lest we seem 1. To own the charge, 2. and thereby tempt the people to think that we take not rebellion for a sin; 3. or to despise both the Law-makers, their Laws, and the said Preachers that thus accuse us.