It is said that the existence of nonconformity proves that the Church is a failure.
The traditional reputation for Nonconformity is maintained by the town, all varieties of dissenters being numerous and influential.
He remained at Bridgnorth nearly two years, during which time he took a special interest in the controversy relating to Nonconformity and the Church of England.
Perhaps no thinker has exerted so great an influence upon nonconformity as Baxter has done, and that not in one direction only, but in every form of development, doctrinal, ecclesiastical and practical.
From this depth of degradation the universities have been slowly extricating themselves, while during the same period Nonconformity has been relieving itself from civil disabilities, and increasing in wealth and influence.
Nonconformity has after a long and difficult struggle, succeeded in obtaining for itself a recognised legal status, and the liberty which it has thus secured is opened to them, if they are content to accept the conditions.
The injunctions to nonconformity to the world in dress and other things are all let go instead of being held fast, and loose reins are given to all manner of worldly forms and fashions.
If the spirit is that of nonconformity to the world, so should the dress or uniform be.
If Nonconformity had n't its tea-urns and its bath buns it would n't hold sway over Ullbrig another twenty-four hours.
A tower of nonconformity in a district pillared with dissent--but a skilled cook.
But the very thoroughness with which he hunts down nonconformity in matters which directly concern his authority, leaves him little energy for other things.
The Parliament of 1689 could no more put an end to nonconformity by tolerating a garb or a posture than the Doctors of Trent could have reconciled the Teutonic nations to the Papacy by regulating the sale of indulgences.
The seeds of Nonconformity were sown at the Reformation, my dear, when some obstinate man made scruples about surplices and the place of the communion-table, and other trifles of that sort.
An Essay on the Christian Ministry, by Bishop Lightfoot, treats after a like unconventional method, the themes which in the days of early Nonconformity were dealt with in so different a tone and method.
As we have seen, from the first manifestations of Nonconformity and Dissent in England, doctrinal themes did not at all enter into the controversy, it being taken for granted that there was accord upon them.
The history of the Reformation and of Nonconformitymight indeed be largely written from the pamphlets and the volumes called out by these local commemorations, so numerous during the last decade of years.
It is of the essence of Nonconformity that it refuses to conform.
Anglo-Saxon Nonconformity actually did refuse to conform, Anglo-Saxon Protestantism did actually protest.
For that very reason Anglo-Saxon Nonconformity has rendered inestimable service to political liberty.
For whatever may have been adduced against British and American Nonconformity, it must be admitted that at least Anglo-Saxon Nonconformity was generally what it professed to be.
We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks.
There was no feeling against the Establishment, nor was Nonconformity ever less in favour.
People began to think it possible, or even probable, that with the existing generation of Dissenters English Nonconformity would so nearly end, as to be no longer a power that would have to be taken into any practical account.
The relation of the English Church to Nonconformitymay accordingly be considered separately.
The supremacy of Scotch or English Nonconformity meant a severity toward any variation from its Presbyterianism as great as Laud had exercised.
Naturally it emigrated to New England to be a foundation of civil government and a fortress for that type of nonconformity which the colonists chose to transplant and make predominant.
Moreover, this tendency to the spread of nonconformity might be controlled by judicious legislation.
In looking, then, at the idea of nonconformity to the world, it was in the apostle's mind, we are impressed by one or two reflections.
In conclusion, how is this nonconformity to the world, in the spirit of a grateful consecration to God, to be attained?
The term "world," again, sometimes means the aggregate of human beings; but nonconformity to the world is at the furthest remove from misanthropy.
But the apostle expands his thought, so as to set forth this consecration under other aspects--as, for example, that of nonconformity to the world.
It is easy to see that this principle of nonconformity to the world is in constant requisition.
But the most part took their Nonconformity very quietly, and were satisfied to know that their chapel was the first in the connection, and their minister justly esteemed as one of the most eloquent.
But that Nonconformity which has come to be the faith in which a large number of people are trained is a totally different business, and affects a very different kind of sentiments.
Conformity and Nonconformity he sometimes sought to harmonise in surprising ways.
In the course of numerous journeys I had opportunities of seeing the real state of Nonconformity in rural districts.
Looking back to “sixty years since,” I am struck with the difference between certain aspects of Metropolitan Nonconformity presented then, and others familiar now.
One special object of Mr. White was to provide an asylum for the ministers who had been deprived and silenced in England for nonconformity to the canons and ceremonies imposed by Laud and his associates.
Thus far the disaffected had played into the hands of their bitterest enemies, and had accomplished little more than furnish a much desired excuse for legislation to destroy Nonconformity root and branch.
