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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
Preface: THE PREFACE TO THOSE READERS Who are of the Excepters mind, and are offended at my Book…
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.
4. Is there one word in it for your Communion with a national Church, that hath one political spiritual Constitutive Head under Jesus Christ; (though ⟨p. 9⟩the Kings supremacy none of us question) Do I once meddle with any such thing?
4. Is there one word in it for your Communion with a national Church, that hath one political spiritual Constitutive Head under Iesus Christ; (though ⟨p. 9⟩the Kings supremacie none of us question) Do I once meddle with any such thing?
5. Is there a word to persuade you to Communion with Persecutors? Though I am forced to displease you by answering that objection, and telling you that we should be Impartial, and remember what most parties or many have done to others; which you were not able it seems, to bear, though it was plainly necessary to the due resolution of the Case in question, whether any Persecutors may be Communicated with?
5. Is there a word to perswade you to Communion with Persecutors? Though I am forced to displease you by answering that objection, and telling you that we should be Impartial, and remember what most parties or many have done to others; which you were not able it seems, to bear, though it was plainly necessary to the due resolution of the Case in question, whether any Persecutors may be Communicated with?
6. Is there one word to persuade you that every Parish is a true Church, and fit to be Communicated with? If none of all this be there, I hope your Patience is not very hard put to it, if I do but entreat you to repent▪ if you have said that of it which is untrue, whoever told you so, or at least, not to proceed in untruths when you are so often warned of them.