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Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…
Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury, church-ruin, and slavery in two parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury, church-ruine, and slavery in two parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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XXIV. I am so far from charging the Church of England with the guilt of this Doctrine or Design, that I prove that the Church of England is utterly against it. But then by that Church I do not mean any Men that can get height and confidence enough to call themselves the Church of England; but those that adhere to the Articles of Religion, the Doctrine, Worship and Government by Law Established.
XXIV. I am so far from charging the Church of England with the guilt of this Doctrine or Design, that I prove that the Church of England is utterly against it. But then by that Church I do not mean any Men that can get heighth and confidence enough to call themselves the Church of England; but those that adhere to the Articles of Religion, the Doctrine, Worship and Government by Law Established.
XXV. And I am so far from uncharitable Censures of the Men whom I thus confute, that I profess that I believe Mr. Thorndike, Bishop Gunning, Mr. Dodwell, &c. to be Men that do what they do in an Erroneous Zeal for Unity and Government, and are Men of great Labour, Learning, and Temperance, and Religious in their way: And I have the same Charity and Honour for many French Papists, yea for such Papal Flatterers as Baronius who joined with Philip Nerius in his first Oratorian Exercises and Conventicles: Yea I cannot think that they that burn and torment Men for Religion, could live in quietness, if they did not confidently think that it is an acceptable Service to God. And I fear not still to profess that were it in my power, I would have no hurt done to any Papist which is not necessary to our own defence.
XXV. And I am so far from uncharitable Censures of the Men whom I thus confute, that I profess that I believe Mr. Thorndike, Bishop Guning, Mr. Dodwell, &c. to be Men that do what they do in an Erroneous Zeal for Unity and Government, and are Men of great Labour, Learning, and Temperance, and Religious in their way: And I have the same Charity and Honour for many French Papists, yea for such Papal Flatterers as Baronius who joyned with Philip Nerius in his first Oratorian Exercises and Conventicles: Yea I cannot think that they that burn and torment Men for Religion, could live in quietness, if they did not confidently think that it is an acceptable Service to God. And I fear not still to profess that were it in my power, I would have no hurt done to any Papist which is not necessary to our own defence.