A26885:322
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. By [things doubtful] I do not mean such as are not certainly revealed in the Scripture, nor yet such as perverse Heretical men do raise doubts about when they are plain in themselves: But I mean such points as are revealed certainly, but more darkly then the greater points, and therefore cannot be so clearly known; so that the sum is this, 1. Indifferent things must not be taken to be Necessary, or ⟨p. 326⟩sinful, but to be indifferent: 2. Lower and Lesser points must not be taken to be Greater or Weightier then they are. 3. Points of less certainty that are more darkly revealed; must not be taken to be more clear and certain to us, then they are. 4. And it is not on such darker smaller matters that God hath laid our salvation; or that the Churches Unity and Peace dependeth.
3. By [things doubtfull] I do not mean such as are not certainly revealed in the Scripture, nor yet such as perverse Heretical men do raise doubts about when they are plain in themselves: But I mean such points as are revealed certainly, but more darkly then the greater points, and therefore cannot be so clearly known; so that the sum is this, 1. Indifferent things must not be taken to be Necessary, or ⟨p. 326⟩sinful, but to be indifferent: 2. Lower and Lesser points must not be taken to be Greater or Weightier then they are. 3. Points of less certainty that are more darkly revealed; must not be taken to be more clear and certain to us, then they are. 4. And it is not on such darker smaller matters that God hath laid our salvation; or that the Churches Unity and Peace dependeth.
II. For the fuller Demonstration of this, let these Reasons be observed. 1. If our Unity were laid on these smaller matters, the multitude of them is such, that we should never Agree in all. The Essentials of Christianity are so few that all men may well be expected to learn and know and entertain them. But the smaller points are so many that there is no hope