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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.
QUEST. V.
Quest. 5. Will it not strengthen and encourage the adversaries of Reformation?
Quest. 5. WIll it not strengthen and encourage the adversaries of Reformation?
Answ. 1. We must not make such carnal policies our guides, as to forbear that which God doth make our duty, for fear of encouraging other men. If we take this to be uncharitable factiousness in others, to desire rather all these distractions in the Church, than that the Non-conformists should be encouraged and strengthened by seeming to have justly desired a Reformation, let us not be guilty of what we blame.
Answ. 1. We must not make such carnal policies our guides, as to forbear that which God doth make our duty, for fear of encouraging other men. If we take this to be uncharitable factiousness in others, to desire rather all these distractions in the Church, than that the Non-conformists should be encouraged and strengthned by seeming to have justly desired a Reformation, let us not be guilty of what we blame.
2. If you will believe themselves, it is the unwilling Conformists that they are most in danger of, who profess that they conform of necessity, and desire a Reformation; As Dr. William Smith hath showed in a book written to that end. The Assembly of Westminster that set up the Presbytery were such Conformists.