A26965:692
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.
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.
XXII. We are on both sides agreed, that it were heinous hypocrisy, and profaneness, if we should make our sacred Ministerial work the pretended reason for our sinning, and should swear, declare or subscribe that which we take to be false, and do that which we take to be sin, that we may have leave to preach against sin in others; and so offer God a Sacrifice of iniquity, and put a beam into our own eye that we may have leave to Preach against the mote that is in our brothers eye.
XXII. We are on both sides agreed, that it were heinous hypocrisie, and prophaneness, if we should make our sacred Ministerial work the pretended reason for our sinning, and should swear, declare or subscribe that which we take to be false, and do that which we take to be sin, that we may have leave to preach against sin in others; and so offer God a Sacrifice of iniquity, and put a beam into our own eye that we may have leave to Preach against the mote that is in our brothers eye.