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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. 10. Why should this, brother, be so extreme impatient with me for calling Dividers, weak and peevish, and censorious Christians? If in his own judgement all men be Idolaters, that use any thing in Gods worship not commanded? Is not this to censure all men as Idolaters? And yet is a censure of peevishness on these Censurers a justifying of persecution.
Q. 10. Why should this, brother, be so extream impatient with me for calling Dividers, weak and pievish, and censorious Christians? If in his own judgement all men be Idolaters, that use any thing in Gods worship not commanded? Is not this to censure all men as Idolaters? And yet is a censure of previshness on these Censurers a justifying of persecution.
Q. 11. Whether this kind of talk be not sport to the Papists, to hear us call one another Idolaters, as well as them? and do not make them deride us; and harden them in their bread-worship, and image-worship, as being called Idolatry on no better grounds than we so call one another.
Q. 12. Whether it be not a great dishonour to any man to suffer silencing, because he cannot add to Gods worship, the Ceremonies and Liturgy, and at the same time to add to Gods word new and false doctrines of our own, by saying that [It is a species of Idolatry, forbidden in the second Command, because it is used in the worship of God ⟨p. 80⟩without any command to make it lawful.] And if we should suffer such false doctrine, and additions, and Love-killing, dividing principles as this, to go uncontradicted, whether we do not betray the truth and our flocks, and show that we were too worthy of our sufferings?
Q. 12. Whether it be not a great dishonour to any man to suffer silencing, because he cannot add to Gods worship, the Ceremonies and Liturgie, and at the same time to add to Gods word new and false doctrines of our own, by saying that [It is a species of Idolatry, forbidden in the second Command, because it is used in the worship of God