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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.
Your 22d. Untruth, is [Without expressing 1himself whether he is for Papal, Presbyterian, or Independent Government in the Church,] And [if this were not crime enough ⟨p. 127⟩to seem unsettled in so necessary a point.] What signification have I given of unsettledness? When I have long ago publicly told the World my judgement about all this to the full, in my five Disputations of Church Government; and in a Book called Christian Concord, and another called Universal Concord, another of Confirmation, besides many more. But might not a man be settled that were (as I am in the main) of the same judgement as is expressed in the Waldenses, or Bohemian Government, described by Laseitius and Commenius; which taketh in the best of Episcopacy, Presbytery and Independency, and leaveth out the worst, and the unnecessary parts? Are all the Hungarian, and Transylvanian, and old Polonian Protestants, that come near this order, without Order, or unsettled?
Your 22d. Untruth, is [Without expressing 1himself whether he is for Papal, Presbyterian, or Independent Government in the Church,] And [if this were not crime enough ⟨p. 127⟩to seem unsetled in so necessary a point.] What signification have I given of unsetledness? When I have long ago publickly told the World my judgement about all this to the full, in my five Disputations of Church Government; and in a Book called Christian Concord, and another called Universal Concord, another of Confirmation, besides many more. But might not a man be setled that were (as I am in the main) of the same judgement as is expressed in the Waldenses, or Bohemian Government, described by Laseitius and Commenius; which taketh in the best of Episcopacy, Presbytery and Independency, and leaveth out the worst, and the unnecessary parts? Are all the Hungarian, and Transilvanian, and old Polonian Protestants, that come neer this order, withour Order, or unsetled?
- 122 Untruth.