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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. XIX. Answered. You proceed, [But Mr. B. being once got into the chair of the scornful will not easily out, and therefore goes on [It is an odious sound to hear an ignorant, rash, self-conceited person, especially a Preacher, to cry out Idolatry, Idolatry, against his brethren's prayers to God, because they have something in them to be amended,] Whereas we do not therefore think any thing to be guilty of Idolatry, because it hath something in it to be amended, [but because it is used in the worship of God, without any command of God to make it lawful;] And this we must tell our Dictator, is a species of Idolatry, and forbid in the second Commandment: And if he will not receive it so, it is, to use his own arrogant and imperious ⟨p. 76⟩words, because he understands not Christian sense and reason.
EXCEPT. XIX. Answered. You proceed, [But Mr. B. being once got into the chair of the scornful will not easily out, and therefore goes on [It is an odious sound to hear an ignorant, rash, self-conceited person, especially a Preacher, to cry out Idolatry, Idolatry, against his brethrens prayers to God, because they have something in them to be amended,] Whereas we do not therefore think any thing to be guilty of Idolatry, because it hath something in it to be amended, [but because it is used in the worship of God, without any command of God to make it lawful;] And this we must tell our Dictator, is a species of Idolatry, and forbid in the second Commandement: And if he will not receive it so, it is, to use his own arrogant and imperious ⟨p. 76⟩words, because he understands not Christian sense and reason.