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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.
§. 13. II. And that Christ commanded all Christians to take each other as brethren, and to live in Love; and that all men by this were to know them to be his disciples, is so fully revealed in Scripture, that it is needless among Christians to prove it.
III. As also that such Christians united to him their Head, are eo nomine his Church; and living in this Love, live as the members of his Church must do.
§. 14. And here three things are to be noted, 1. That what was done by the Holy Spirit as given extraordinarily to the Apostles as founders or Architects of the Church, to lead them into all truth, was truly done by Christ himself; the Holy Ghost so extraordinarily given being his promised Agent.
2. That yet this work of Instituting Baptism as the terms of Church-union, he would not leave to the Spirit in the Apostles, but was the immediate author of it himself.