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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
20. Yea I must confess, that when I think what Learned, Holy, Incomparable men, abundance of the old Conformists were, my heart riseth against the thoughts of separating from them! If I had come to their Churches, when they used the Common-prayer, and administered the Sacrament, could I have departed and said, It is not lawful for any Christian here to Communicate with you? What! to such men as Mr. Bolton, Mr. Whateley, Mr. Fenner, Mr. Dent, Mr. Crook, Mr. Dike, Mr. Stock, Mr. Smith, Dr. Preston, Dr. Si•bes, Dr. Stoughton, Dr. Taylor, and abundance other such? yea such as Bishop Jewel, Bishop Grindal, Bishop Hall, Bishop Potter, Bishop Davenant, Bishop Carl•t•n, &c. Dr. Field, Dr. Smith, Dr John White, Dr. Willet, &c. yea and the Martyrs too, as Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper himself, Farrar, Bradford, Philpot, Sanders, &c. To say nothing of ⟨p. 58⟩Luther, Melanchthon, Bucer; and the rest of the foreign worthies. Could I separate from all these on the reasons now in question? Yea Calvin himself and the Churches of his way, were all separated from by the separatists of their times.
20. Yea I must confess, that when I think what Learned, Holy, Incomparable men, abundance of the old Cenformits were, my heart riseth against the thoughts of separating from them! If I had come to their Churches, when they used the Common-prayer, and administred the Sacrament, could I have departed and said, It is not lawful for any Christian here to Communicate with you? What! to such men as Mr. Bolton, Mr. Whateley, Mr. Fenner, Mr. Dent, Mr. Crook, Mr. Dike, Mr. Stocke, Mr. Smith, Dr. Preston, Dr. Si•bes, Dr. Stoughton, Dr. Taylor, and abundance other such? yea such as Bishop Iewel, Bishop Grindal, Bishop Hall, Bishop Potter, Bishop Davenant, Bishop Carl•t•n, &c. Dr. Field, Dr. Smith, Dr Iohn White, Dr. Willet, &c. yea and the Martyrs too, as Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper himself, Farrar, Bradford, Philpot, Sanders, &c. To say nothing of ⟨p. 58⟩Luther, Melanebthon, Bucer; and the rest of the forreign worthies. Could I separate from all these on the reasons now in question? Yea Calvin himself and the Churches of his way, were all separated from by the separatists of their times.