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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. VII.
Quest. 7. Shall we not hereby countenance the Prelates in Church-Tyranny and Usurpation? and invite them to go further, and to make more burdens of Forms and Ceremonies to lay upon the Churches?
Quest. 7. SHall we not hereby countenance the Prelates in Church-Tyranny and Usurpation? and invite them to go further, and to make more burdens of Forms and Ceremonies to lay upon the Churches?
Answ. Without meddling now with the question, what guilt it is that lieth on any Prelates in the points here mentioned, I answer, on your own supposition; 1. That it is the King and his Laws which we obey herein, and not the Diocesans.
Answ. Without medling now with the question, what guilt it is that lyeth on any Prelates in the points here mentioned, I answer, on your own supposition; 1. That it is the King and his Laws which we obey herein, and not the Diocesans.
2. How openly and fully have we declared our utter dissent from the things which you suppose that we shall countenance them in? Our Writings are yet visible: Our Conferences were notorious. And is not the loss of our Ministry, and the loss of all Ecclesiastical Maintenance, and the pinching wants of many poor Ministers, and their numerous families, and our suffering Volumes of reproach, confinements, &c. a signification of our dissent? The case is somewhat hard with abundance of godly faithful Ministers? Few that never felt it themselves, can