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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.
EXCEPT. VII. Answered. You say that I impertinently recite the Corruptions of the Scripture Churches, to prove that we are not to separate, &c. your reason is [Because many Errors in Doctrine and life were formerly admitted, yet none of them were imposed as conditions of Communion.1
- 1The Corruption of the Scripture Churches.
Answ. Do you not see that here you seem to deny what you said so confidently in the last Exception? There you say, We must come out, if they will receive such for members after all admonition, and retain them. ⟨p. 29⟩Here you seem plainly to yield that up, and to lay all on imposed Conditions of Communion, as if else you could communicate with Churches so corrupt. You can bear your own contradiction better than mine.
Answ. Do you not see that here you seem to deny what you said so confidently in the last Exception? There you say, We must come out, if they will receive such for members after all admonition, and retein them. ⟨p. 29⟩Here you seem plainlie to yield that up, and to lay all on imposed Conditions of Communion, as if else you could communicate with Churches so corrupt. You can bear your own contradiction better than mine.