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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. 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?
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 publick Worship? And must not Christians publickly 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?
Q. 7. Let the Bills of Mortality, and the knowing Inhabitants tell you, Whether there be not some Hundred Thousands in the great Parishes, in and near this City, more than can come into their Parish-Churches, and hear. If they would all but show their willingness to come in, if they could, and Twenty Thousand stood at St. Martin's in the Church-Yard, and Streets, and as many at Stepney, and at St. Giles Cripplegate, and Ten Thousand at Giles in the Fields, and so of the rest, and should say, We are here desirous to come in, and cannot, What would you say to them? Are they not more miserable that are content to stay at home?
Q. 7. Let the Bills of Mortality, and the knowing Inhabitants tell you, Whether there be not some Hundred Thousands in the great Parishes, in and near this City, more than can come into their Parish-Churches, and hear. If they would all but shew their willingness to come in, if they could, and Twenty Thousand stood at St. Martin's in the Church-Yard, and Streets, and as many at Stepney, and at St. Giles Cripplegate, and Ten Thousand at Giles in the Fields, and so of the rest, and should say, We are here desirous to come in, and cannot, What would you say to them? Are they not more miserable that are content to stay at home?