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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. XXIX. Answered. Why, Brother, did you never till now hear either Familists, Socinians, or the grosser Quakers (such as Major Cobbet writes against, and Smith) called by the name of [a Sect,] Had you no greater thing to quarrel with? You shall call them how you will. Your anger I pass by.
EXCEPT. XXX. Answered. Y•• say [May we not justly suspect that to be bad in the worship of God, which the wicked sort do love?] Answ. I spake not of [what they love, but, what they are for;] This change of my words is unrighteous. I only advised men not to reject a good cause, because it is owned by some (or most bad persons.) And why did you not answer my instance of the Pharisees long prayers? We have had many Religious persons or sects that have of late been some against▪ Infant Baptism, some against singing Psalms, some against Ministry, and Church-meetings, and some against Sacraments, and instituted Ordinances, and some against Tithes and Universities, and humane Learning; (And Mr. Norton of New England told me, that with them, A Church separated from a Church, or was gathered out of it, rejecting their Pastors, and choosing unlearned men, and would receive and endure none that had humane Learning; and that Moses and Aaron (as his words were) Magistrates and Ministers went down on their knees to them with tears, and could not move them to relent unto unity, or to receive a learned Minister, nor get any answer from them, but [that is your judgement, and this is ours.] I speak his very words as near as I can possibly, spoken to old Mr. Ash and me, before his (yet living) companion Mr. Broadstreet a Magistrate of New England.) Now all this the common people are against. ⟨p. 125⟩