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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.
Have you more and plainer texts of Scripture against the Common Prayer than all these are? Now suppose one should say that a people of such sin as this should not be Communicated with, especially where there is no discipline exercised that ever so much as calleth one man of them to repentance for it: what answer will you give to this, which will not confute your own objections, against Communion with many Parish Churches in this Land.
Have you more and plainer texts of Scripture agninst the Common Prayer than all these are? Now suppose one should say that a people of such sin as this should not be Communicated with, especially where there is no discipline exercised that ever so much as calleth one man of them to repentance for it: what answer will you give to this, which will not confute your own objections, against Communion with many Parish Churches in this Land.
5. Lastly hence note, how still overdoing is undoing. By the Principles of Love and Peace contained in the book which some reproach, had they not disowned them, they might ⟨p. 70⟩have had their part in this just Vindication, against them that accuse the Non-conformists Principles of Enmity to Love and Peace: But they would have no part in it, and have cast away their own vindication, and so have confirmed their accusers, and tempted them to believe that some Non-conformists are indeed such as they described:
5. Lastly hence note, how still overdoing is undoing. By the Principles of Love and Peace conteined in the book which some reproach, had they not disowned them, they might ⟨p. 70⟩have had their part in this just Vindication, against them that accuse the Non-conformists Principles of Enmity to Love and Peace: But they would have no part in it, and have cast away their own vindication, and so have confirmed their accusers, and tempted them to believe that some Non-conformists are indeed such as they described: