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The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon…
The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon a scandalous pamphlet entitled, A proposition for the safety and happiness of the king and kingdom : in a letter to a gentleman of the House of Commons.The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon a scandalous pamphlet intituled, A proposition for the safety and happiness of the king and kingdom : in a letter to a gentleman of the House of Commons.
London: printed for R. Jenaway sic, 1667
THE JUDGMENT OF Mr. BAXTER CONCERNING CEREMONIES AND CONFORMITY.
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.
THE JUDGMENT OF Mr. BAXTER CONCERNING CEREMONIES AND CONFORMITY.
Those Modes or Circumstances of Worship 1which are Necessary in Genere, but left undetermined by God in Specie, are left by God to humane Prudential Determination: (else an Impossibility should be necessary.) But many such there are, that are Necessary in Genere, but left undetermined of God in Specie; therefore many such are left to humane Prudential Determination.
THose Modes or Circumstances of Worship 1which are Necessary in Genere, but left undetermined by God in Specie, are left by God to humane Prudential Determination: (else an Impossibility should be necessary.) But many such there are, that are Necessary in Genere, but left undetermined of God in Specie; therefore many such are left to humane Prudential Determination.
- 1Disp. 4. P. 361.
§. 5. Yet it is in the Power of man to determine of 1such Modes and Circumstances as are necessary to the ⟨p. 8⟩performance of that Worship which God hath instituted in his Word: and therefore lawful Governors may in such Cases bind us by their Commands.