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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.
For those of the Independent way who think as Mr. Eaton writeth that the Covenant bindeth not, I need not here say any thing as to their satisfaction. For others I say, 1. There is no word in all the Covenant expressly against the Liturgy.
For those of the Independent way who think as Mr. Eaton writeth that the Covenant bindeth not, I need not here say any thing as to their satisfaction. For others I say, 1. There is no word in all the Covenant expresly against the Liturgie.
2. If there had been any word in it against Communion with the Churches that use the Liturgy, it had been sin, and against our duty, and therefore could not bind.
2. If there had been any word in it against Communion with the Churches that use the Liturgie, it had been sin, and against our duty, and therefore could not bind.
3. The judgement of Protestants is, that Vows must not make us new duties of Religion but bind us faster by a self obligation, to that which God binds us to without them. Therefore (though if we should Vow an indifferent thing, it would bind, yet) this could not be taken for the Covenanters intention.
3. The judgement of Protestants is, that Vowes must not make us new duties of Religion but bind us faster by a self obligation, to that which God binds us to without them. Therefore (though if we should Vow an indifferent thing, it would bind, yet) this could not be taken for the Covenanters intention.