A26923:166
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
3. But the Gospel hath put the matter out of doubt, telling us that Christ hath actually declared and determined the Essentials of Objective Christianity and the Church: even in his Institution o• Baptism, which is our Christening, which in his preaching he expounded, and so did his Apostles. 2. And as his Baptized Disciples were called Christians, so he commanded them to Love one another and live in Concord and Communion a• ⟨p. 5⟩Christians: and could any obey this Command, of Christianity was then either unmade or a thing that could not be known?
§. 6. And if it was then made by Christ, it was sur•ly anchangeable: else men might be still making a new Christianity, from Age to Age, and when should we have an end? And who hath power or skill to make a better than Christ made […] that attempted it, thereby is an accursed Antichrist?
§. 6. And if it was then made by Christ, it was sur•ly anchangeable: else men might be still making a new Christianity, from Age to Age, and when should we have an end? And who hath power or skill to make a better than Christ made 〈…〉 that attempted it, thereby is an accursed Antichrist?
§. 7. And now we come next to enquire, I. What are the Church-Controversies to be decided. II. And who are the Dissenters that differ herein. III. And then we shall easily find who it is that must be the Judge of them.