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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.
§. 26. 3. And as to the Nature and Use of the thing, Order is for the sake of the thing ordered, and the persons for whose good it is; And therefore not to be set against them.
§. 27. 4. And Christ himself hath oft taught us this way of judging: When he bids us, Go learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. And when he oft reproveth Jews and Samaritans for striving about circumstances, setting them against spiritual worshipping of God; And when he saith, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; And Paul when he saith, All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos, and Let all be done to Edification. All which tell us that the End is a certain Canon to the means, and to be preferred; and that Morals must be preferred before Rituals, and Rituals never set against them. And methinks they should be of this mind that deny the Scripture to ⟨p. 215⟩have unchangeably fixed all Rituals; and yet confess that Morals are fixedly determined.
§. 28. 5. And even Popes have been taken for Popes upon Election before Consecration: And Arch-bishops with us have no superiors to Consecrate them, but such Inferiors as promise them obedience at their own Consecration.
§. 28. 5. And even Popes have been taken for Popes upon Election before Consecration: And Arch-bishops with us have no superiours to Consecrate them, but such Inferiours as promise them obedience at their own Consecration.