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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.
Q. 6. Whether here be a syllable of proof, but his angry affirmation?
Q. 7. Whether thou canst receive this saying of his, if thou have Christian sense and reason, so far as to believe that all the Churches of Christ fore-named, the Greek, the Abissine, the Armenian, the Coptics, the Lutherans, and all the Reformed Churches that fall under his Charge, are ⟨p. 78⟩Idolaters? And couldst bring thy heart accordingly to condemn them, and separate from them? And whether thou canst take all the holy Conformists of England, such as Bolton, Preston, Sibbes, Stock, Dike, Elton, Crook, Whateley, Fenner, &c. for Idolaters? yea, and all the non-Conformists that used and joined in the Liturgy?
Q. 7. Whether thou canst receive this saying of his, if thou have Christian sense and reason, so far as to believe that all the Churches of Christ fore-named, the Greek, the Abissine, the Armenian, the Coptics, the Lutherans, and all the Reformed Churches that fall under his Charge, are ⟨p. 78⟩Idolaters? And couldst bring thy heart accordingly to condemn them, and separate from them? And whether thou canst take all the holy Conformists of England, such as Bolton, Preston, Sibbes, Stocke, Dike, Elton, Crooke, Whateley, Fenner, &c. for Idolaters? yea, and all the non-Conformists that used and joyned in the Liturgie?
Q. 8. Whether thou canst believe that this same brother himself, that writeth at this rate, do use nothing in Gods worship which hath no command of God to make it lawful? Is all this reviling, all this false doctrine, all his untruths commanded of God? Or doth he not make himself an Idolater?