A26897:130
Church concord
Church concord containing I. a dissuasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.Church concord containing I. a disswasive from unnecessary division and separation, and the real concord of the moderate independents with the Presbyterians, instanced in ten seeming differences, II. by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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Master Norton Resp. ad. Apollon. p. 7. 11, 12. thus fully openeth their ⟨p. 16⟩mind; that [All and only those Competentes that are Ecclesiastically [Greek or Hebrew] Believers, and walk orderly are the next matter of a Visible Church and to be admitted.] By Ecclesiastically Believers he tells us that he meaneth [such as are faithful in the judgment of the Church, or such as towards whom whether they are positively faithful or not, we are bound to carry our selves in common Church Duties as if they were faithful.] To this he takes these four things necessary. [1. A Confession of the Fundamentals, and other points of1 Religion, which are of necessity to avoid2 a scandalous Life. 2. Such a declaration of the Experimental work of Faith which contains the substance of Conversion, though it may be counterfeit. 3. A Conversation3 not scandalous. 4. A testified Subjection to the Gospel of Christ, and his Government.]4
Master Norton Resp. ad. Apollon. p. 7. 11, 12. thus fully openeth their ⟨p. 16⟩mind; that [All and only those Competentes that are Ecclesiastically 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Believers, and walk orderly are the next matter of a Visible Church and to be admitted.] By Ecclesiastically Believers he tells us that he meaneth [such as are faithful in the judgment of the Church, or such as towards whom whether they are positively faithful or not, we are bound to carry our selves in common Church Duties as if they were faithful.] To this he takes these four things necessary. [1. A Confession of the Fundamentals, and other points of1 Religion, which are of necessity to avoid2 a scandalous Life. 2. Such a declaration of the Experimental work of Faith which contains the substance of Conversion, though it may be counterfeit. 3. A Conversation