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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.
§. 38. But yet somewhat more tyrannical and abominable is it, for one man, the Bishop of Rome, to damn all the Church of Christ on earth that will not be his Subjects as the Vicar-General of Christ, and own his Usurpation, and so to cut off and damn the far greatest part of the Christian world. But the best is procul à Jove, procul à fulmine, the remote Churches feel it not, and do but deride it, and to the nearer parts his thunderbolt doth not ⟨p. 197⟩kill all so many nor kindle so many fagots as once it did; nor is any one ever the more condemned by God for such Papal condemnations.
§. 39. But when I speak of particular Church-Communion, I shall show, that there is some lawful suspension (called by some the Minor excommunication) which cuts not a man off from Communion with any Church, much less from the universal or from Christ.
§. 39. But when I speak of particular Church-Communion, I shall shew, that there is some lawful suspension (called by some the Minor excommunication) which cuts not a man off from Communion with any Church, much less from the universal or from Christ.
§. 40. Not approving of or practising a doubtful or indifferent humane form of Liturgy, or ceremony or circumstance or mode, is no just cause of cutting off a man from the Universal Church▪ Because notwithstanding that, he may be a true Christian and a member of Christ and his Church, and therefore must not falsely be declared to be none.
§. 40. Not approving of or practising a doubtful or indifferent humane form of Liturgy, or ceremony or circumstance or mode, is no just cause of cutting off a man from the Universal Church Because notwithstanding that, he may be a true Christian and a member of Christ and his Church, and therefore must not falsly be declared to be none.