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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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Q. 3. Are we not all Vowed to God in our Baptism, renouncing the Seduction of the World, the Flesh and the Devil? And do all understand and keep this Vow? And is not the perfidious Violation of it, a most damning Sin? And when Thousands of full Age are yet to learn what Baptism is, and what they Vowed, Have they not great need to be plainly taught it?
Q. 4. Is a Baptized Infidel, or ungodly Person, any better or safer than the Turks or the Salvages in America? Will the Name of Christians save perfidious Hypocrites? Or, Will it not be easier for Sodom than for such?
Q. 5. If Christian Knowledge and Practice be not necessary, Why pray we for Conversion of Heathens and Infidels? And, Why doth the Article of the Church of England condemn those that hold, That all may be saved in their several Religions? And what are we better than Turks and Heathens?
Q. 6. Are not all Men on Earth bound solemnly to worship the God that made them? And do not all the Idolatrous Heathens, and the Mahometans, offer their God some public Worship? And must not Christians publicly worship Christ? Are not holy Assemblies for Doctrine, Prayer, Praise and Communion, Commanded to that end; and the Lord's day separated thereto, and all forbid to forsake such Assembling?