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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.
§. 3. 2. He therefore that apostatizeth or denieth any one essential article of Christianity, cuts off himself first, and is to be declared by the Churches sentence to have so done, if he repent not: If he timely repent, it must prevent the sentence.
§. 3. 2. He therefore that apostatizeth or denyeth any one essential article of Christianity, cuts off himself first, and is to be declared by the Churches sentence to have so done, if he repent not: If he timely repent, it must prevent the sentence.
§. 4. 3. Whatever sin amounteth to an evident refusal of promised subjection to Jesus Christ, cuts off the sinner morally from Christ, and if he prevent it not by repentance, he is to be sentenced accordingly by the Church; who do but thus declare who depart from Christ and cut off themselves.
§. 5. 4. Every sin is not a renouncing of our allegiance or subjection to Christ, nor to be censured by excommunication.
1. There are sins of mere infirmity or imperfection in duty; as imperfection of sincere faith, love, hope, obedience, prayer, &c. 2. There are sins of sudden passion and surprise which the will habitually abhorreth, and the sinner quickly repenteth of. 3. There are sins of ignorance which a man knew not to be sins. 4. There are sins of mere forgetfulness. 5. Yea it is not all presumptuous sin that is a renouncing of our subjection: A faithful man knoweth that the least sin should be avoided, and he may know that vain jesting or idle words are a