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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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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.
§ 21. I. Christening by Baptism, must not be made an Infant Ceremony, but used as one of the greatest actions of all the life of man: Parents being seriously taught to know what it is to enter their Child into the holy Covenant, and to Dedicate their Child to God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, renouncing the World, the Devil, and the Flesh: And the Parents or Proparents, and not perfidious dissembling God-fathers, must solemnly promise their careful education.