A26965:149
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
SECT. VI.
3. What Separation, and what Gathering of Assemblies or Churches is unlawful, and what lawful.
I. Though some mens abuse of the word [Schism] and calling mens duty to God by that name, hath proved a great temptation to many, to take it but for a word of Passion, or of no certain or odious signification (even as the Papists abuse of the word [Heresy] and [Heretic] hath been to others) yet the evil of true Shism and the odium that God layeth on it in the Scripture, should move all Christians, to fear the thing and use the name with the disgrace that it truly importeth (without misapplication,) and to avoid all guilt of so great a sin.
I. THough some mens abuse of the word [Schism] and calling mens duty to God by that name, hath proved a great temptation to many, to take it but for a word of Passion, or of no certain or odious signification (even as the Papists abuse of the word [Heresie] and [Heretick] hath been to others) yet the evill of true Shism and the odium that God layeth on it in the Scripture, should move all Christians, to fear the thing and use the name with the disgrace that it truely importeth (without misapplication,) and to avoid all guilt of so great a sin.