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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
Chapter 46: Point III. Of forcing Men to Schism, by renouncing Communion with true Churches and Mem…
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M. III. The Third unlawful part of Lay-Conformity is, that they must be forced from Local Communion with all the Nonconformists that Assemble any where save in the Parish-Churches or Chapels, and so under pretence of driving them from Schism, they are driven into notorious Schism.
M. III. THe Third unlawful part of Lay-Conformity is, that they must be forced from Local Communion with all the Nonconformists that Assemble any where save in the Parish-Churches or Chappels, and so under pretence of driving them from Schism, they are driven into notorious Schism.
L. How prove you that it's their Duty to have any such Communion with Nonconformists Conventicles? If you are Schismatics, it's a Sin to Communicate with you.
L. How prove you that it's their Duty to have any such Communion with Nonconformists Conventicles? If you are Scismaticks, it's a Sin to Communicate with you.
M. 1. I prove Communion with us a Duty; (Tho' it be not every Man's Duty to be Locally present with us, it is every Man's Duty not to avoid it as an unlawful thing, but to be willing of it as he hath occasion). 2. It is a Duty for all Christians to own Communion with all true Members of the Body of Christ. But Nonconformists and their Assemblies for Worship, are true Members of the Body of Christ. Ergo— The major is most fully proved by Christ, Joh. 17. 24. and Paul 1 Cor. 12. throughout, and Eph. 4. 1, 2, 3, to the 17. and