A26897:283
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Let us therefore take up with this Description in our future Agreements; and in the practice, the Prudent, and Charitable will not presume to censure any Mans Profession as Incredible, coram Ecclesiâ without proof.
Let us therefore unanimously set up Confirmation, or (if you dislike the Name) the Trial and Approbation of the Profession of all that are entered among the Adult Church Members. And if any are too loose on one side, or too rigid on the other in the practical part; the judging, and accepting or refusing of the tried, let the Matter be debated, at the Synods of the Consociate Pastors, if there be any Accusation put in.
Let us therefore unanimously set up Confirmation, or (if you dislike the Name) the Tryal and Approbation of the Profession of all that are entered among the Adult Church Members. And if any are too loose on one side, or too rigid on the other in the practical part; the judging, and accepting or refusing of the tryed, let the Matter be debated, at the Synods of the Consociate Pastors, if there be any Accusatio• put in.
2. We are Agreed that Consent is necessary to Church-Membership: And that it must be a signified consent: And that the most express consent is best to the well being of the Church caeteris paribus; but yet that a darker way of signifying may serve to the Being of the Church.