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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
Chapter 12: The Three other Reasons for Popery answered briefly.
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.
Chap. XII. The Three other Reasons for Popery answered briefly.
Quest. III. Should not the Roman Church Policy in reason be owned for the advantage of Christianity against Infidels?
Quest. III. SHould not the Roman Church Policy in reason be owned for the advantage of Christianity against Infidels?
Ans. 1. We deny not but Unity, Concord, Power and Riches, and the great number of Adherents, is a great advantage to Christianity against Infidels: And all these are Gods Gifts, and as such do good.
2. But the abuse of them though it do not quite frustrate the genuine Effects, yet so depraveth them, that it's a doubt whether the hurt to the common Christianity be not greater than the advantage. If Unity were maintained in Christs way it would have far better Effects than in the Papists way.