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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.
§. 21. It would seem tedious to recite all other texts to the same purpose: His prohibitions of vain disputes and janglings about the Law and genealogies, and his confining men to the common doctrine of Christianity, and his warning men to preach no new or other doctrine, may be seen in the Epistles to Timothy and Titus.
§. 22. And it is much to be observed, 1. That all the heretics of those times pretended to greater wisdom and curiosity than the Christian Churches had, and by such pretences brake their Concord, as may be seen in all the Epistles, especially Col. 2. & Jam. 3.
§. 22. And it is much to be observed, 1. That all the hereticks of those times pretended to greater wisdom and curiosity than the Christian Churches had, and by such pretences brake their Concord, as may be seen in all the Epistles, especially Col. 2. & Jam. 3.
2. And yet that whenever the Apostles or Christ himself, Rev. 2. & 3. censure any such heretics to be forsaken and cast out, it is never for any little matter, but for denying some common article of the faith (as Christs Incarnation, the Resurrection, &c.) or for some gross wicked doctrine and practice, (as fornication and eating things offered to idols, or rebelling against Rulers, &c.) Which shows what then were the terms of Church unity, and by what Canons they were governed, by Gods appointment.