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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
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.
I Do sincerely, as before God, Profess, that I believe the Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the True word of God, and (supposing the Light and Law of Nature) the Divine sufficient Rule of Faith and Holy Living, according to which we shall be Judged, which no humane Laws or Power can Abrogate or Suspend, being all but subordinate thereto. And I will Preach nothing as necessary to Salvation, which cannot be proved or warranted thereby.
I Do sincerly, as before God, Profess, that I believe the Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the True word of God, and (supposing the Light and Law of Nature) the Divine sufficient Rule of Faith and Holy Living, according to which we shall be Iudged, which no humane Laws or Power can Abrogate or Suspend, being all but subordinate thereto. And I will Preach nothing as necessary to Salvation, which cannot be proved or warranted thereby.
And more particularly, I believe all the Articles of the Creed, called the Apostles, as a summary of our Faith, and Consent to the Lord's Prayer as the summary of our Desires, and to the Decalogue, as expounded by Christ, as the summary of our obedient practice; and I resolvedly Consent to the Gospel-Covenant, with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which these summaries explain, and which is celebrated in Baptism, and the Lord's Supper.
And I do own, and honour the Church of England; that is, This Christian Reformed Kingdom, containing the Approved Pastors and their Flocks; both the ⟨p. 240⟩Publicly Maintained, and the Duly Licensed and United under one Christian Reformed Sovereign, and Renouncing all Foreign Jurisdiction. And I do honour, with thankfulness to God, the Reformation and Concord of this Church, in Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, and will labour to preserve its Unity and Peace, renouncing all Treasons, Seditions, Popery, Foreign Jurisdiction, Heresy, Schism and Profaneness: And I do promise to Exercise my Ministry with diligence for the edification of the Church, and the saving of mens Souls.