A26897:261
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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By comparing a Church that tolerateth the rejection of an Article of Faith, with a Church rejecting an Ordinance of God. A temporary rejection of an Article of Faith tolerated in a Church is a greater evil, than the rejection of some Ordinance. In the Church of Corinth many denied and derided the Resurrection of the Dead; and this Corruption is tolerated in the Church, and yet in the Reformation of that Church, the Apostle doth neither presently forbid Union with the Church, nor Command Separation from the Church. In the Churches of ⟨p. 52⟩Galatia the rejection of the Doctrine of Justification by Faith was tolerated at least: there being such as judged that beside Faith, Moral and Ceremonial Works were necessary to Salvation: which other Doctrine he calls another Gospel, Gal. 1. 6. But this was a greater evil than not to have granted the Enjoyment of some Ordinance: and yet they did not therefore cease to be Churches.
By comparing a Church that tolerateth the rejection of an Article of Faith, with a Church rejecting an Ordinance of God. A temporary rejection of an Article of Faith tolerated in a Church is a greater evil, than the rejection of some Ordinance. In the Church of Corinth many denyed and derided the Resurrection of the Dead; and this Corruption is tolerated in the Church, and yet in the Reformation of that Church, the Apostle doth neither presently forbid Union with the Church, nor Command Separation from the Church. In the Churches of ⟨p. 52⟩Galatia the rejection of the Doctrine of Iustification by Faith was tolerated at least: there being such as judged that beside Faith, Moral and Ceremonial Works were necessary to Salvation: which other Doctrine he calls another Gospel, Gal. 1. 6. But this was a greater evil than not to have granted the Enjoyment of some Ordinance: and yet they did not therefore cease to be Churches.