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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.
XIX. We are agreed that to make a deliberate Covenant that I will sin against God, and to subscribe and declare this, is a heinous aggravation of the sin: e. g. When the high places were kept up in Judea if any had Covenanted to keep them up, and purposed to transgress, the wilfulness had been the greatness and dangerous signification of such sinning.
XX. We are agreed that Repentance is Gods condition of forgiveness; and that for a man to resolve and Covenant to sin and to profess it openly to all the Church, and that oft times, and so to renounce Repentance, is—alas—
XXI. Most sober Christians are agreed that Christians should be united upon the terms which Christ himself hath made in the baptismal Covenant, and in their obedience to his Laws; and that Papal Usurpations and imposing of things unnecessary as necessary to Union, Communion or Ministration, hath been the great cause of Schisms through the Christian world, ⟨p. 226⟩for about 1000 years at least: And that they who will still obey such dividing Imposers, do continue Schisms in the world by encouraging the causes of them.
XXI. Most sober Christians are agreed that Christians should be united upon the terms which Christ himself hath made in the baptismal Covenant, and in their obedience to his Laws; and that Papall Usurpations and imposing of things unnecessary as necessary to Union, Communion or Ministration, hath been the great cause of Schisms through the Christian world, ⟨p. 226⟩for about 1000 years at least: And that they who will still obey such dividing Imposers, do continue Schisms in the world by encouraging the causes of them.