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Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully published from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times faithfully publish'd from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1696
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.
§ 35. Upon the Publication of our Agreement, the Ministers in most Counties began to take the Business into consideration; and though some few of the ancient Presbyterians were against it, and thought it would bring the Presbyterian Government into Contempt, or hinder the Execution of it, when it had been agreed on by so grave a Synod at Westminster, and established by the Parliament, and therefore they rather desired a strict Execution of the Ordinance of Parliament, and an Agreement on those Terms) yet the most of the godly, faithful Ministers, as far as I could learn, were for it: For as we hindered no Man from following his own Judgment in his own Congregation, so we Evinced beyond denial that it would be but a partial dividing Agreement, to agree on the Terms of Presbyterians, Episcopal, or any one Party, because it would unavoidably shut out the other Parties; which was the principal thing which we endeavoured to avoid: it being not with Presbyterians only, but with all Orthodox, faithful Pastors and People, that we are bound to hold Communion, and to live in Christian Concord, so far as we have attained, Phil. 3. 15, 16.
§ 35. Upon the Publication of our Agreement, the Ministers in most Counties began to take the Business into consideration; and though some few of the ancient Presbyterians were against it, and thought it would bring the Presbyterian Government into Contempt, or hinder the Execution of it, when it had been agreed on by so grave a Synod at W•stminster, and established by the Parliament, and therefore they rather desired a strict Execution of the Ordinance of Parliament, and an Agreement on those Terms) yet the most of the godly, faithful Ministers, as far as I could learn, were for it: For as we hindered no Man from following his own Judgment in his own Congregation, so we Evinced beyond denial that it would be but a partial dividing Agreement, to agree on the Terms of Presbyterians, Episcopal, or any one Party, because it would unavoidably shut out the other Parties; which was the principal thing which we endeavoured to avoid: it being not with Presbyterians only, but with all Orthodox, faithful Pastors and People, that we are bound to hold Communion, and to live in Christian Concord, so far as we have attained, Phil. 3. 15, 16.