A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.

THE CONTENTS.

• AN Historical Preface: Dr. Stillingfleet's judgment as in his Ireni∣con.
• A Premised explication of the equivocal word Church. What the Catho∣lick Church is in our judgment, and what in the judgment of many of our si∣lencers.—
• 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 Tremen∣dous aggravations of the sin of Conforming were written without the least provocation on their part: or that as designed to repre∣sent 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 ex∣amined: More proof of his falsification: The difference between the Non∣conformists and the Brownists. How we are used by them. The Refor∣matio 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 Non∣conformists 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 Bu∣cer's

• Scripta Anglicana, De Regno Del, his Censura of the Litur∣gy, & 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 con∣sidered Whether it be true, That there is no other reason against Commu∣nion 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, be∣cause 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 par∣ticular Church? The Doctors Schismatical Error Confuted, p. 76. (He by this condemneth Apostles, and Evangelists that were Itinerant and un∣fixed, such as Bucer de Regno Dei would have sent abroad) my excepti∣ons 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 Bi∣shops, 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 unnecessa∣ry, 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 Po∣pery 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 rea∣sons 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 Ima∣ges, p. 156, &c.
• What the Papists ascribe to Sacraments: p. 168.
• Chap. 11. Whether the Excommunicating Church, or the Excommuni∣cate Nonconformists, for not Communicating, when ipso facto Excommuni∣cate, be guilty of Schisme. p. 163.
• Chap. 12. Of the English sort of Sponsors, and the Exclusion of the Pa∣rents 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 Repen∣tance.
• ...

• 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 Prac∣tice.
• 3. An Excellent Confutation of Dr. Stillingfleets History, of the ex∣tent of Dioceses, and Choice of Bishops, fully proving, that the old Bi∣shops were Parochial or Congregational, and always chosen by the People, or not made theirs without their free Consent. By a Learned and faith∣ful 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.