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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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.
V. The Errors of the Protestants in their Opposition to Popery, are so many and gross, and their unjust accusations of the Papists so palpable, especially their Exposition of the Revelation so Partial, Erroneous and Hostile as seemeth much to make their Cause more suspected than the Papists.
§ 10. These Reasons which prevailed with such great Men as Erasmus, Cassander, Grotius, and many others, need a more accurate answer than most Protestants are prepared to give, which we should find were the Papists by Liberty of Religion let loose to open Disputes among us: I have tried some Judicious Ministers with the first of these, and have had but such answers as are defective and insufficient.
§ 10. These Reasons which prevailed with such great Men as Erasmus, Cassander, Grotius, and many others, need a more accurate answer than most Protestants are prepared to give, which we should find were the Papists by Liberty of Religion let loose to open Disputes among us: I have tryed some Judicious Ministers with the first of these, and have had but such answers as are defective and insufficient.
§ 11. The Answer which satisfieth me is this.