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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 15: The Case of Toleration of Dissenters from the Common Laws and Customs of a National Chu…
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.
§ 4. 1. If we treat with Proud Men, they will have no Concord but by mens granting their unjust demands, and submitting to their Wills, whatever God and Reason say against it. And they must be in Rule and the most Worthy and Innocent be at their mercy.
§ 5. 2. If we treat with Worldlings and Self-seeking men, their Worldly interest must be the measure of Concord: And how various, mutable and unrighteous is that like to be?
§ 6. 3. If we treat with malignants their terms of peace, will be directly or indirectly the suppression of serious Godliness.
§ 7. 4. If we treat with Factious Schismatics, Heretics or Papists, their terms will be only that which furthereth and strengtheneth their sects.
§ 7. 4. If we treat with Factious Schismaticks, Hereticks or Papists, their terms will be only that which furthereth and strengthneth their sects.