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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.
CHAP. XI.
The danger of the two extremes: And first of despairing of any Concord, and of unjust Tolerations.
The danger of the two extreams: And first of despairing of any Concord, and of unjust Tolerations.
§. 1. Some men having seen the Christian world so long in Sects and contending parties, do think that there is no hope of Unity and Concord, and therefore that all should be left at liberty: And others think that there is no hope but on terms so wide as shall take such as Christ receiveth not, nor would have us receive. And on such accounts there were very early great contentions about the qualifications of ⟨p. 115⟩the baptizers and baptized, and the validity of baptism, and about re-baptizing.
§. 1. SOme men having seen the Christian world so long in Sects and contending parties, do think that there is no hope of Vnity and Concord, and therefore that all should be left at liberty: And others think that there is no hope but on terms so wide as shall take such as Christ receiveth not, nor would have us receive. And on such accounts there were very early great contentions about the qualifications of ⟨p. 115⟩the baptizers and baptized, and the validity of baptism, and about re-baptizing.