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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 14: Whether the National Church of England be at the present of a sound Constitution. And w…
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5. If all that Communicate not be no Members (perhaps two thousand if not four thousand in a Parish of six thousand or eight thousand) are the rest well permitted quietly to be of no Parish Communion?
6. How many of all these and the debauched have been Excommunicated or openly brought to Repentance in London these thirty years, according to the Canon.
7. Have the Nonconformists more deserved it, for going from their own Parishes, or Communicating with Godly dissenting Protestants.
I speak all this only if possible to procure some Repentance of the sins and divisions that threaten our ruins after the sad experience of more than the last thirty years effects. For God will not Pardon us without Repentance.
I speak all this only if possible to procure some Repentance of the sins and divisions that threaten our ruines after the sad experience of more than the last thirty years effects. For God will not Pardon us without Repentance.