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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
Part 2 › Whether it be our Duty to seek Peace with the Anabaptists?
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.
Prop. 7. If any one that Erreth but in the bare Point of Infant Baptism, or other Errors that subvert not the Christian Faith, shall yet take it to be his duty to propagate those Errors, it will be the duty of every Orthodox Minister, when he hath a Call and findeth it Necessary, to defend the Truth of such Errors, and to endeavour the establishing of the Minds of the People, and not to let them go on without Control or Contradiction, lest he be guilty of betraying the Truth and Peace of the Church, and the Souls of the People who are usually sorely endangered hereby: The like must be done by Private Christians privately, or according to their Places and Capacities.
Prop. 7. If any one that Erreth but in the bare Point of Infant Baptism, or other Errours that subvert not the Christian Faith, shall yet take it to be his duty to propagate those Errours, it will be the duty of every Orthodox Minister, when he hath a Call and findeth it Necessary, to defend the Truth of such Errours, and to endeavour the establishing of the Minds of the People, and not to let them go on without Controll or Contradiction, lest he be guilty of betraying the Truth and Peace of the Church, and the Souls of the People who are usually sorely endangered hereby: The like must be done by Private Christians privately, or according to their Places and Capacities.
So much for the Negative: The Affirmatives follow.
Prop. 1. The Common Love which is due to all Men, and the Common Peace which must be endeavoured with all, must be held or endeavoured as to them that deny the Essentials of Christianity. But, as is before said, this is not it that the Question doth intend.