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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26911	The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing B1238; ESTC R10601	97,954	194

to approve of all things contained in the Book whatever you shall say or do I would have done as Iohn Fox the Martyrologist did saith Heylin who brought a Greek Testament supposing the Hebrew old Testament and said to them I am ready to subscribe this If that will not serve your turn take my Prebendship of Salisbury which is all the Preferment that ever I had of you and much good may it do you § 2. And you tell us without proof that when at Christmas we are bid say As on this day Christ was born for divers Days it intends not that we shall use the words this Day but on one Day and so at Whitsuntide c. That is It expresly imposeth the very words that we shall read forbidding us by the Canon to alter or diminish and yet it meaneth not that we should use them May you not then say what you list which you think should have been commanded you and suppose it the meaning of the Command You say This is but a favourable interpretation You should have said truly It was their oversight which if they had seen they had amended And I do not say that they meant amiss But if they speak amiss and our humble Prelates that are Servi servorum Dei come after them and command me on pain of Silence to Assent Consent to and Approve the words they shall take my Liberty and Life if they will but I will not Approve them It is all things in the Book that we must Consent to whatever was in their Minds If they bid me Approve the saying that Christ's Body and Blood is really present under the forms of Bread and Wine and mean as well by it as Cousins Heylin c. did I will not Approve it though you should Though Luther de Conciliis Dav. Derodon say that Nestorius meant soundly yet the Councils condemned him for a Heretick and owned not his words whatever he meant § 3. But you say It is not that the old Book was faultless but that They were fully persuaded in their judgments that it was so Ans. You think this but a favourable Interpretation too But by your leave If they had said that we are fully persuaded in our judgment that the Council of Trent hath nothing contrary to the Word of God and then required me to declare my Assent and Consent to all things contained in that Book I should not have done it If you understand the words so others will not CHAP. XXVI § 1. YOu next undertake to prove that the Act of Uniformity is no part of the Book to be Consented to The Contents say it is You say it is not Are these Contents part of the Book If so Then they are false If not How shall we know what is or is not part of the Book Your Proofs are no Proofs 1. You say The Act it self nameth the Book as distinct from the Law Ans. And what then No more followeth but that the word Book is sometime taken in the full sense and sometime more narrowly So the Body is oft distinguished from the Head and the Kingdom from the King Will you therefore infer that the Head is no part of the Body nor the King of the Kingdom fully taken The Preface is usually distinguished from the Book and so is the Index or Contents Margin Title c. And yet Preface Index Contents Title Margin of the Book are all parts of the Book Your second Proof is of the same sort § 2. Your third saith The Book must rather if either be a part of the Act because it is subjoined Would you by this rate of Argument convince us Is the Book part of the Preface or Contents or Index if these go first Is the House part of the Porch or the Porch part of the House Is the Body part of the Head or the Kingdom part of the King or the Family part of the Porter But you say It is absurd to say that the thing to which the Appendix is annexed is part of the Appendix It is so therefore say not so your self But is not the Appendix part of the Book And doth the Acts being placed first make it no Appendix And were it put in the end were it not the same thing § 3. Your Fourth is no better viz. The Old Act of Uniformity is a declared part of the Contents and bound up with the Book and if this be part we must subscribe contradictions to use two Common-Prayer-Books Ans. Is that old Act the old Book Is subscribing to that Act subscribing to the old Book Why obtrude you on us such things unproved 2. Do you not know that the New Act not only confirmeth the Old but also altereth the sense of it and tells you that henceforth it shall be understood as meaning this New Book And as Bishop Taylor truly tells you Laws are not the Laws of the dead but of the living who therefore give them what sense they please And yet shall so sober a man tell us That subscribing the Old Act is subscribing the Old Book I begin to be weary answering such reasonings as these § 4. Your fifth and sixth Reasons are from the general sense and opinion of all Divines as for you And you say Never any to this day did think that the 36th Canon and Subscription included the Act. Ans. You now practice what you plead for Can you tell what every Subscriber to this day thought He is yet living that at the Savoy undertook to prove it an Act of Mercy to them to put all from the Sacrament that did not receive it kneeling And you know that All the Bishops in the Lords House had their part in making that Act of Uniformity with all its penalties And as certainly they did consent to the making and imposing of it so what should make you sure that they never meant no not one of them that any others should be bound to the same when they put it into the Book and put in the words All things contained and when it is so natural to such men to desire that all men approve of what they do I should think it ten to one that they that think it their duty to do such a thing as the silencing of two thousand Ministers on those terms or five thousand if they had not conformed will be very much concerned to have their act approved And that they that will not endure us to speak in the praying Desk or at either Sacrament to God in any one word but what they write down for us to say are likely to desire that we may be also bound to approve of their Sanctions of this Law But I am sure you speak that which you know not to be true § 5. To your Seventh I answer What would have plainer than the express Assertion of the Contents themselves § 6. In your Eighth you say Many Conformable men think Nothing in the Book is to be assented to but what is