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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.
3. And according to their different Capacities and Relations.
4. And according to their different temper and behaviour in managing their cause.
5. And as Rulers are able or unable to suppress them without more hurt than good.
§ 12. I. If Superiors have made Dissenters by sinful Laws, the Peace must be more than a Toleration, by changing those Laws. Shall the Throne of Iniquity have Fellowship with God, when they frame Mischief by a Law?
§ 13. II. A Dissenter that opposeth the Essentials of Religion, or teacheth Damnable or Treasonable Doctrines, must be differenced from those that only refuse to be Perjured, or Lie, and make a sinful Covenant and Promise, or Profession, or that scruple some small unnecessary thing which to them seemeth sin against Gods Laws.