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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
§. 25. And if mens judgements differ about matters of practice, in essentials, integrals or accidents, their practice will accordingly differ. He that judgeth a thing unlawful will not do it, if he fear God and be truly conscionable. Had Images been lawfully used in places or exercises of Gods worship, yet it was inhumane and unchristian in those Bishops and Councils who cursed from Christ all that were of the contrary mind, and pronounced it an intolerable heresy, and ejected and silenced dissenters, and raised wars and bloodshed for such a difference: Much more unchristian was it for the Roman Pope to rebel against his proper Prince, the Greek Emperor, and alienate the Western Empire from him, to the French, on that account, and to excommunicate and depose Emperors as heretics called Iconoclasts, as if Imagery had been an Article of faith, or a necessary universal Command of God: For how can that be a heresy that is not a plain denial or subversion of any necessary article of faith or practice? And sure no such for Images is in the Creed or Decalogue.
§. 25. And if mens judgements differ about matters of practice, in essentials, integrals or accidents, their practice will accordingly differ. He that judgeth a thing unlawful will not do it, if he fear God and be truly conscionable. Had Images been lawfully used in places or exercises of Gods worship, yet it was inhumane and unchristian in those Bishops and Councils who cursed from Christ all that were of the contrary mind, and pronounced it an intolerable heresie, and ejected and silenced dissenters, and raised wars and bloodshed for such a difference: Much more unchristian was it for the Roman Pope to rebel against his proper Prince, the Greek Emperour, and alienate the Western Empire from him, to the French, on that account, and to excommunicate and depose Emperours as hereticks called Iconoclasts, as if Imagery had been an Article of faith, or a necessary universal Command of God: For how can that be a heresie that is not a plain denyal or subversion of any necessary article of faith or practice? And sure no such for Images is in the Creed or Decalogue.