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A search for the English schismatic by the case and characters I. of the…A search for the English schismatick by the case and characters I. of the…
A search for the English schismatic by the case and characters I. of the diocesan canoneers, II. of the present mere nonconformists : not as an accusation of the former, but a necessary defence of the later, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them / by Richard Baxter ...A search for the English schismatick by the case and characters I. of the diocesan canoneers, II. of the present meer nonconformists : not as an accusation of the former, but a necessary defence of the later, so far as they are wrongfully accused and persecuted by them / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1681
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.
IV. By Active Canonical Conformists, I mean those that are for the present frame of Ecclesiastical Government, with the Liturgy and Canons, and the Laws which enforce them (who call usually for the Execution of those Laws).
V. By the mere present Nonconformists, I mean such as are guilty of no other punishable errors or sins, but such as the Act of Uniformity doth eject and silence us for; and who declared openly their judgments about Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, in 1660, after a Common meeting at Zion-College, and another at the Savoy, which is published in Print; That is, the Reconcilers, or Peacemakers, who then laboured and begged for Peace and Unity in vain; who tie themselves to the judgment of none called Nonconformists heretofore, Presbyterians, Independents, &c. but to the Word of God, and the example of the true Primitive Churches, and are not for Concord only with a Sect, or a dividing-party, High or Low, but for that Catholic Church and Communion of Saints, which are in our Creed.
V. By the meer present Nonconformists, I mean such as are guilty of no other punishable errors or sins, but such as the Act of Uniformity doth eject and silence us for; and who declared openly their judgments about Doctrine, Worship and Discipline, in 1660, after a Common meeting at Sion-Colledge, and another at the Savoy, which is published in Print; That is, the Reconcilers, or Peacemakers, who then laboured and beg'd for Peace and Unity in vain; who tye themselves to the judgment of none called Nonconformists heretofore, Presbyterians, Independents, &c. but to the Word of God, and the example of the true Primitive Churches, and are not for Concord only with a Sect, or a dividing-party, High or Low, but for that Catholick Church and Communion of Saints, which are in our Creed.
Schism being a culpable rending of Christians from each other, hath a great number of degrees (as it is by Apostasy from the Universal Church totally, or by denying a fundamental, by Heresy; or as it is but by denying Integrals, or but Accidents; as it is but from a particular Church, a Church of Gods forming, or of mans; As it is from a Church, as if it were no Church, or a corrupt