The History Of Protestant Nonconformity In England From The Reformation Under Henry Viii

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...were formed. The confusion which subsequently ensued when Laud was impeached, and episcopacy overturned, em Letters, ii. 118. b Vol. i. 494. 519. c Crosby, i. 148. Chap. boldened the baptists to come forth from their retire XII 'ment, and to proclaim, with unhesitating confidence, Charles their distinguishing tenets. "Of late," says Dr. Featley, who regarded them as a compound of all the worst heresies that had ever troubled the church, " since the unhappy distractions which our sins have brought upon us, the temporal sword being otherwise employed, and the spiritual sword locked up fast in the scabbard, this sect, among others, hath so far presumed upon the patience of the state, that it hath held weekly conventicles, rebaptized hundreds of men and women together in the twilight in rivulets, and some arms of the Thames, and elsewhere, dipping them over head and ears. It hath printed diverse pamphlets in defence of their heresy, yea, and challenged some of our preachers to disputation.'"1 Dr. Featley himself engaged in a discussion with some members of this sect, October 17th, 1642, and the account which he subsequently published bears ample testimony to the virulence of his zeal, and to the rapid growth of the baptists. He says that they boasted of having forty-seven churches, and holds them up to the reprobation of his readers, for maintaining " That it is the will and command of God, that since the coming of his Son, the Lord Jesus, a permission of the most Pagan, Jewish, Turkish, or antichristian consciences, and worships, be granted to all men in all nations and countries; that civil states, with their officers of justice, are not governors or defenders of the spiritual and christian state and worship; that...

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