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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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Chap. XII. Difference X.
THE Tenth Controversy, is about, 1. Taking Members out of other Churches, 2. And separating from the Parish Churches, by gathering out of them a select number to be a distinct Church.
THE Tenth Controversie, is about, 1. Taking Members out of other Churches, 2. And separating from the Parish Churches, by gathering out of them a select number to be a distinct Church.
And here there is a Practical Difference to our woe: But in order to Reconcilement, I should hope that I might suppose our Agreement in all the other points of Difference to be sufficient, and that being satisfied in those the Brethren that have been for withdrawing from our Churches, will be satisfied to join with us for their Reformation, and not do as they have some of them done. For we have therefore come as near them as we can in the rest, that they might have no just occasion to depart from us: And if that yet they will depart, when the offence is removed, then it would be as if they should say, We are against Concord and Unity as such: And our judgment for Division as such, that is, for Dividing without cause. When we have answered all that our Brethren allege for their withdrawing, we may expect that they should return to an Orderly Communion. This Controversy is de fine, and seeing we ⟨p. 43⟩grant them much in the rest for this, therefore we cannot grant them this: If in War we grant all that is desired for Peace, it is supposed that we will not grant the continuance of the War; nor in reason must that be one of the demands.