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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.
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.
4. And it is commonly agreed, that if we Vow a thing indifferent, it bindeth us not when the indifferency ceaseth: which may be by the Magistrate• command, or by another mans necessity, or ⟨p. 87⟩change of Cases: Else a man might before hand prev••t most of the Magistrates obligations, and his P•re•ts and Masters too, and escape obedience; and might say with the Pharisees, it is Corban, or a devoted thing.