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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.
Doct. 1. It should not depreciate the counsels of Christs Ministers, that they are sent or written from a prison ⟨p. 5⟩or bonds, but rather procure their greater acceptance: when they are not imprisoned for evil doing, but for Preaching or obeying the Gospel and Law of Christ, it is their honour, and the honour of that doctrine which they suffer for: why else keep you days of thanksgiving and Commemoration of the Martyrs? On the persecutors part Christ is evil spoken of or blasphemed, but by the sufferers he is glorified, and therefore he will glorify them.1 I was once blamed for dating a book [out of the Common gaol or prison in London] as if it reflected on the Magistrate: But I imitated Paul, and mentioned nothing which the Rulers took for a dishonour, as their actions showed.
Doct. 1. It should not depreciate the counsels of Christs Ministers, that they are sent or written from a prison ⟨p. 5⟩or bonds, but rather procure their greater acceptance: when they are not imprisoned for evil doing, but for Preaching or obeying the Gospel and Law of Christ, it is their honour, and the honour of that doctrine which they suffer for: why else keep you days of thanksgiving and Commemoration of the Martyrs? On the persecutors part Christ is evil spoken of or blasphemed, but by the sufferers he is glorified, and therefore he will glorifie them.1 I was once blamed for dating a book [out of the Common gaol or prison in London] as if it reflected on the Magistrate: But I imitated Paul, and mentioned nothing which the Rulers took for a dishonour, as their actions shewed.
- 11 Pet. 4.