Preface and abstract of The Nonconformists Plea for Peace

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  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/61
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises ii.51
  • Dates of Creation
      1679-1680
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
      10 folio, ff 377-386 (includes a little cut out half page between 385 and 386 and one between 379 and 380)

Scope and Content

The preface and abstract of 'The nonconformists plea for peace: or An account of their judgment. In certain things in which they are misunderstood: written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord' (1679) by Richard Baxter. Closely written by Baxter in quarto.

Note

Baxter replied to those critics who argued that the nonconformists were preparing for rebellion in his The second part of the nonconformists plea for peace in 1680. Later that same year he answered Edward Stillingfleet’s sermon, printed as The unreasonableness of separation(1681), which was aimed against him and others, in Richard Baxter's answer to Dr Edward Stillingfleet’s Charge of Separation (1680) and he also replied to John Che(y)ney’s The Conforming Nonconformist (1680) in his The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or An account of the matter of their nonconformity, against Mr. J. Cheney’s answer (1680).

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Baxter ii.51; Thomas p.17

Bibliography

  • The nonconformists plea for peace: or An account of their judgment. In certain things in which they are misunderstood: written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord(1679) by Richard Baxter. See Corr 473, 958, 1028, 1044, 1068, 1070, 1085, 1088 and 1096.
  • For Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99) see ODNB, Rel iii, 19, iii 187 and Corr 704, 803, 810, 832, 912, 925, 937, 967, 1009, 1051, 1053, 1054, 1055, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1077, 1079 and 1246. For John Che(y)n(e)y (fl 1670-94) see Corr 958, 1049, 1070, 1096, 1106 and 1109.
  • See also Rel. iii, 180, 187 and 188.