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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.
As he is the Teacher of the Church, did he never teach them so necessary a thing, as what essential Church-unity is? These are such imputations against Christ, as seem to deny him to be Christ; As he would deny God to be God, that would deny his providence and government of the world.
§. 7. Christs Law is to be both the Rule of our actions and his judgement. And if he have left out so great a point as the essentiating terms of Church Union, what momentous acts of our lives are left to be ungoverned and unjudged by the Laws of Christ?
§. 7. Christs Law is to be both the Rule of our actions and his judgement. And if he have left out so great a point as the essentiating terms of Church Vnion, what momentous acts of our lives are left to be ungoverned and unjudged by the Laws of Christ?
§. 8. Above all men those are bound to consent to what I say, who hold that Christs Laws have not left so much as a ceremony undetermined, and that ⟨p. 101⟩nothing may be added or diminished in his worship. How much less then hath he left the essentiating terms of Church-unity unprescribed?