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Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Part 2: THE SECOND PART AGAINST SCHISM, &c. The Reasons of Mr. Raphson, and such others, agains…
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.
II. Another Argument: That is not unlawful which God commandeth us in general to choose and do, and so alloweth in the Particulars: But such are the Twenty Things before mentioned, &c.
God commandeth us to do all things in Love, and Concord, and Order, to edification. This must needs reach to the undetermined circumstances. We cannot worship God publicly at all, but it must be in some words, in some gestures, in some time, in some place; nor profess our Faith, and Covenant-consent, but by some sign: and so of the rest. If you choose no one, when God hath tied us to none, but bid us choose to edification, we break his General Law. If you can prove that we choose amiss, the Fault will be, not that we choose, but that we choose not better.
God commandeth us to do all things in Love, and Concord, and Order, to edification. This must needs reach to the undetermined circumstances. We cannot worship God publickly at all, but it must be in some words, in some gestures, in some time, in some place; nor profess our Faith, and Covenant-consent, but by some sign: and so of the rest. If you choose no one, when God hath tied us to none, but bid us choose to edification, we break his General Law. If you can prove that we choose amiss, the Fault will be, not that we choose, but that we choose not better.
III. That is not unlawful which Christ and his Apostles did before us without blame, and belongeth also unto us. But such is the use of such Modes and Circumstances of God's instituted worship, which are left variable, and free to occasional choice, &c.