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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.
XI. And as they fear rejecting such as will not be so Crossed, from Baptism: so they much fear the English use of the Cross themselves; and that much more than Crossing our selves on ordinary occasions, or setting up Crosses on our doors or Churches or by the high ways; and yet much ⟨p. 178⟩more than they fear such using of the Cross as Augustine de Civ. Dei, and other ancients mention, as an open Indication to Heathens that we are not ashamed of a Crucified Christ: Much less are they against civil uses of a Cross.
XI. And as they fear rejecting such as will not be so Crost, from Baptism: so they much fear the English use of the Cross themselves; and that much more than Crossing our selves on ordinary occasions, or setting up Crosses on our doors or Churches or by the high waies; and yet much ⟨p. 178⟩more than they fear such using of the Cross as Augustine de Civ. Dei, and other ancients mention, as an open Indication to Heathens that we are not ashamed of a Crucified Christ: Much less are they against civil uses of a Cross.
2. The name [Sacrament] signifying primarily any solemnization of a Covenant by Oath and Ceremony (as the sacramentum militare among the Romans) especially a Covenant which engageth one in a new relation, and more largely any sacred mystical Ceremony, the question here is whether the Cross be not made (not only a sacrament in a larger sense, as ordination and Matrimony may be called sacraments) but even a sacrament of the Covenant of grace, or so very near it as to have the greatest part of that sacramental nature.
2. The name [Sacrament] signifying primarily any solemnization of a Covenant by Oath and Ceremony (as the sacramentum militare among the Romans) especially a Covenant which engageth one in a new relation, and more largely any sacred mystical Ceremony, the question here is whether the Cross be not made (not only a sacrament in a larger sense, as ordination and Matrimony may be called sacraments) but even a sacrament of the Covenant of grace, or so very neer it as to have the greatest part of that sacramental nature.