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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.
§. 9. There is no heed to be taken by mens crying out against error or schism, to discern who is the erroneous or Schismatic. None more cry out against them than the guilty: Who condemneth error and schism more than the Papists, and who are greater causes and authors of them than the Pope? As our common profane rabble are so great hypocrites, that they live quite contrary to their Baptismal Vow, and the Religion which they nominally profess, and yet commonly cr• •ut against hypocrisy, and call all men hypocrites that seem to be serious in living as they vowed and profess; even so the greatest Schismatics and Heretics, partly in blindness, and partly to avert both men and conscience from accusing themselves, do usually first cry down Schismatics and Heretics, and perhaps preach and write most vehemently against them. I take a man to be never the more Orthodox, Catholic, or of the true Church, for crying up the true Church, Catholicism and Orthodoxness, and crying down the contrary, and accusing others.
§. 9. There is no heed to be taken by mens crying out against error or schism, to discern who is the erroneous or Schismatick. None more cry out against them than the guilty: Who condemneth error and schism more than the Papists, and who are greater causes and authors of them than the Pope? As our common prophane rabble are so great hypocrites, that they live quite contrary to their Baptismal Vow, and the Religion which they nominally profess, and yet commonly cr• •ut against hypocrisie, and call all men hypocrites that seem to be serious in living as they vowed and profess; even so the greatest Schismaticks and Hereticks, partly in blindness, and partly to avert both men and conscience from accusing themselves, do usually first cry down Schismaticks and Hereticks, and perhaps preach and write most vehemently against them. I take a man to be never the more Orthodox, Catholick, or of the true Church, for crying up the true Church, Catholicism and Orthodoxness, and crying down the contrary, and accusing others.