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The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for…
The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1655
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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.
Qu 3. Is it not lawful to take and use that which is so Dedicated? And if the Apostles and first Church Officers might take all, May not we take the Tenths, when they are thus Devoted?
Qu 3. Is it not lawfull to take and use that which is so Dedicated? And if the Apostles and first Church Officers might take all, May not we take the Tenths, when they are thus Devoted?
Qu. 4. If our Ancestors, many an Age ago have given the Tenths to the Church for the Ministry, are not those sacrilegious Church-robbers that should now take them away, having nothing to do with them? And do not you counsel men to the sin of Judas or of Ananias and Sapphira?
Qu. 4. If our Ancestours, many an Age ago have given the Tenths to the Church for the Ministry, are not those sacrilegious Church-robbers that should now take them away, having nothing to do with them? And do not you counsel men to the sin of Iudas or of Ananias and Sephira?
Qu. 5. If one that bears the bag prove a Judas and Thief, or one Nicolas a Deacon should lead a Sect of Nicolaitans, your Predecessors, Whether are all the Apostles therefore Thieves, or all the Churches and Pastors greedy dogs, for taking much more then the Tenths, even mens whole Estates that gave them to that use?
Qu. 5. If one that bears the bag prove a Iudas and Thief, or one Nicolas a Deacon should lead a Sect of Nicolaitans, your Predecessours, Whether are all the Apostles therefore Thieves, or all the Churches and Pastors greedy dogs, for taking much more then the Tenths, even mens whole Estates that gave them to that use?