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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.
11. [To be humbled for our own sins and the sins of the Kingdoms,]
12. [To amend our Lives, and each one to go before another in the Example of a real Reformation].
If all these be not Duties, let the question be, Whether any one of them be a Duty? And then, Whether that which is antecedently a Duty by Divine Obligation, be not further so by Self-obligation, when it is vowed with an Oath? Or whether a Vow bind not to a Duty? But this is but by the by, about the sense of the Imposers of Subscription expressed in the Corporation Act. But it is only [the […] of Church Government] which the present Controversy is about: And if all that was said against our Prelacy on the first Controversy prove it a Duty to endeavour an alteration of the Church-Government, then the Controversy is at an end.
If all these be not Duties, let the question be, Whether any one of them be a Duty? And then, Whether that which is antecedently a Duty by Divine Obligation, be not further so by Self-obligation, when it is vowed with an Oath? Or whether a Vow bind not to a Duty? But this is but by the by, about the sence of the Imposers of Subscription exprest in the Corporation Act. But it is only [the 〈…〉 of Church Government] which the present Controversie is about: And if all that was said against our Prelacy on the first Controversie prove it a Duty to endeavour an alteration of the Church-Government, then the Controversie is at an end.