A Second True Defense of the Nonconformists, Table of contents – Errata
THE CONTENTS.
AN Hiſtorical Preface: Dr. Stillingfleet's judgment as in his Irenicon.
A Premiſed explication of the equivocal word Church. What the Catholick Church is in our judgment, and what in the judgment of many of our ſilencers.—
Chap. 1. Dr. Stillingfleet's large and plain Aſſerting of our principles in his Defence of Archbiſhop Laud, and Rom. Idolatry. p. 1.
Chap. 2. Some Animadverſions on his Preface: Whether the Jeſuits firſt brought in Spiritual Prayer. A full explication of our judgment about Spiritual Prayer. His hard terms againſt mens (high or low) chuſing Tutors for their Children.— p. 11.
Chap. 3. Dr. Stillingfleet his Accuſations examined: His confuſion; diſputing a queſtion not ſtated: What he means by [Our Church] by Communion] by [Conſtant] by [Withdrawing] by [Separate Congregations] what Separation I am for or againſt. Whether he ſay true, that my Tremendous aggravations of the ſin of Conforming were written without the leaſt provocation on their part: or that as deſigned to repreſent the Clergy as notorious Lying perjured Villains, p. 22. &c.
Chap. 4. His falſe Hiſtory of the old Nonconformiſts: as if Bancroft's Danger. Poſit. Heylin, and all ſuch old accuſers, utterly belyed them, and the Canons made againſt them had a falſe ſuppoſition: his citations examined: More proof of his falſification: The difference between the Nonconformiſts and the Browniſts. How we are uſed by them. The Reformatio Legum Eccleſ. how much for diſcipline. I now add my requeſt to the Reader that would know how far the firſt Reformers were of the Nonconformiſts mind, and againſt our new Church-men, that they would but read Cranmers, and the other Drs. words cited by Dr. Stillingfleet in the end of his Irenicon (and left out of Dr. Burnet's Hiſtory) and Bucer's Scripta Anglicana, De Regno Del, his Cenſura of the Liturgy, & de cura Anim. &c.
The ſtory of Dr. Ames, Paul Bayne, Dr. Fulk, &c. Dr. Humphrey's Letter to the Biſhops,— p. 55, 56, 57.—
Chap. 5. The falſe Reaſonings and accuſations of his ſecond part, p. 59.
My judgment and caſe ſtated, which he falſly reporteth: Others Caſes conſidered Whether it be true, That there is no other reaſon againſt Communion than was at the firſt Reformation. Difference proved, 1. From the things impoſed. 2. From the deſign of the impoſers. 3. From the effects. 4. From the caſe of the Church with whom we Communicate. 5. From the additional reaſons for our Preaching, p. 64.
What he would have them do that cannot have room in their Churches, p. 70.
His appeal to my caſe at Kederminſter, ſhamed, p. 71, &c.
His falſe ſuppoſition that moſt of my Hearers need not our Teaching, becauſe they ſometimes hear in the Pariſh-Churches, p. 73. He acquits them from Schiſme that ſeparate, if the Church be Schiſmatical, 74. (I deſire the Reader then to Read my few Sheets, called A ſearch for the Engliſh Schiſmatick.) More miſtakes. p. 74, 75.
Chap. 6. Whether he be no Chriſtian, that is not a fixed Member of a particular Church? The Doctors Schiſmatical Error Confuted, p. 76. (He by this condemneth Apoſtles, and Evangeliſts that were Itinerant and unfixed, ſuch as Bucer de Regno Dei would have ſent abroad) my exceptions about Churches and Miniſters juſtified, and his Calumny detected, p 80. Whether I give too much to the People, or am againſt the Rights of Patrons, or Magiſtrates, p. 82. Many more Calumnies to p. 89. He accuſeth, me, as accuſing them for naming the ſins that I dare not commit, p. 89. More of his vain Accuſations to p. 92. Whether he be for ſilencing us p. 92. More of his Calumny, p. 99. Conſiderable Quere to him, p. 94. How he would drive men to Separation, p. 95, 96. He is come to Self-condemning Gentleneſs, in expounding his Rule and Text, Phil. 3. 16. p. 97. His ſad Ennumeration of the cauſes of juſt Separation, p. 98.
Chap. 7. He begins his Third Part with more falſe Accuſations, p. 99. His Hiſtory for Dioceſan Churches againſt Parochial found fallacious, p. 100, &c. His vain Plea for the Engliſh Frame, p. 106, &c. He ſaith, Its probable while the Apoſtles lived there were no fixed Biſhops, or but few, p. 108. (And Dr. Hammond ſaith, No Subject Presbyters) whether John Fox were the Publiſher (or Prefacer) of the Reformatio Legum, &c. p. 109. Diſcipline hard, but not unneceſſary, p. 111.
Chap. 8. What the National Church of England is, fully diſcuſſed; and the Doctors Self-contradictions detected: He denyeth any true Political Church of England: He and we more agreed, than he and other high Church-men, that are for a Conſtitutive Political Government, p. 112, 113, &c. He maketh it an introduction of Popery, to hold that a Church muſt have a Conſtutive Regent Church-power; and ſo faſteneth Popery on the Maſters of his cauſe.
Chap. 9. That the mutual Conſent of Paſtors and flock is neceſſary to the very being of their Relation.
About Thirty Proofs from Antiquity, that the Univerſal Church was for about 1000 years of that mind, and decreed it, p. 128, &c.
The neceſſity of conſent proved from the Nature of the work; where the reaſons of it are all plainly opened p. 133. &c.
The Doctors contrary ſurmiſes and falſe Hiſtories fully confuted, p. 136, &c.
Chap. 10. Of the impoſed Uſe of the Croſs in Baptiſme, and denying Baptiſme to the refuſers. p. 153.
His vaine excuſes confuted. Whether the Croſs be uſed as a Sacrament. His diſingenuous falſifying my words of the uſe of Crucifixes and other Images, p. 156, &c.
What the Papiſts aſcribe to Sacraments: p. 168.
Chap. 11. Whether the Excommunicating Church, or the Excommunicate Nonconformiſts, for not Communicating, when ipſo facto Excommunicate, be guilty of Schiſme. p. 163.
Chap. 12. Of the Engliſh ſort of Sponſors, and the Excluſion of the Parents Duty. p. 167. (ſee more in the Poſtſcript)
Chap. 13. Of the three French Letters which he ſubjoyneth. p. 171.
Chap. 14. Epiſtles and Teſtimonies, Compar'd with the Doctors. And notes on Mr. Jo. Glanviles Book, called The Zealous Impartial Proteſtant: With a Letter of his to the Author; and a Digreſſion about Dr. Lewis du Moulin, his Publiſhed Picture and Death-bed Repentance.
A Poſtſcript, of five notices, viz.
1. Of a new Obſervation of the Trade of taking mony to be Godfathers to Poor mens Children, and miſſing Baptiſme for want of mony.
2. A Letter of Mr. W. Rathbands, of his Fathers judgment and Practice.
3. An Excellent Confutation of Dr. Stillingfleets Hiſtory, of the extent of Dioceſes, and Choice of Biſhops, fully proving, that the old Biſhops were Parochial or Congregational, and always choſen by the People, or not made theirs without their free Conſent. By a Learned and faithful Miniſter.
4. An Excellent Vindication of the ſilenced Miniſters, by a Conformiſt, &c.
5. My Apologie for the Nonformiſts Preaching, Written by me, and Comming out with this.
ERRATA.
IN the Preface, Sect. 17. line 13. read pleaded for. l. 17. after Clergie and People, add of … …i…ſ…. So Evident is the right of Synods, Clergie and People.