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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.
6. I beseech you to that end, better to study your self, and to know what manner of spirit you are of. Besides all the intimated Untruths, here are 30 or 31 gross Untruths in matter of fact which I have set before you. For my self, it is not the least part of my Non-conformity, That I dare not lie, by public Declaration to say, I Assent and Consent where I do not. Now shall a man aggravate the crime of such things as these, and yet do what you do himself?
6. I beseech you to that end, better to study your self, and to know what manner of spirit you are of. Besides all the intimated Untruths, here are 30 or 31 gross Untruths in matter of fact which I have set before you. For my self, it is not the least part of my Non-conformity, That I dare not lie, by publick Declaration to say, I Assent and Consent where I do not. Now shall a man aggravate the crime of such things as these, and yet do what you do himself?
7. I do solemnly profess to you, that I feel no malice against you, much less a desire of your hurt in all this that I say which is against your Judgment, but an unfeigned love to you, and tenderness of your person.
8. Lastly, I again protest against the injustice of any one that shall charge your Opinions and Miscarriages on the Non-conformists; when I know not two Presbyterians or mere Independents of your mind; though too many so called in England, have inclined to unjust separations. And we are no more concerned in the opinions of them that are not Protestants, though they also go under the name of Non-conformists, ⟨p. 145⟩than in the opinions of the Papists, who are called Recusants.
8. Lastly, I again protest against the injustice of any one that shall charge your Opinions and Miscarriages on the Non-conformists; when I know not two Presbyterians or meer Independants of your mind; though too many so called in England, have enclined to unjust separations. And we are no more concerned in the opinions of them that are not Protestants, though they also go under the name of Non-conformists,