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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. And if it prevail, what abundance of hurt will it do?
1. You may read in the new Ecclesiastical Politician, how it will exasperate the minds of others, and give them matter of bitter reproach, and for the sake of a very few, how many that are blameless shall be aspersed with it? and the cause of the Non-conformists, yea, with many, the Protestant, yea, and the Christian Religion, rendered contemptible and odious by it.
1. You may read in the new Ecclesiastical Politician, how it will exasperate the minds of others, and give them matter of bitter reproach, and for the sake of a very few, how many that are blameless shall be aspersed with it? and the cause of the Non-conformists, yea, with many, the Protestant, yea, and the Christian Religion, rendred contemptible and odious by it.
2. It draweth men into the dangerous guilt of Adding to the Word of God, under pretence ⟨p. 99⟩of strict expounding it, and defending its perfection and extent.