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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. And that they be responsible to the Church and Magistrate for what they say and do.
Of Liturgies I am to speak in the third Part: Only here 4. I add that fit words, and spiritual life, are the body and soul of worship, and one must not be pleaded against another, nor any by Formality mortify holy worship and turn it into a Carcass or a lifeless ⟨p. 225⟩image; Nor yet on pretence of spirituality condemned the frequent use of the same words (commonly called Forms) whether prepared by the speaker who best knoweth what he needeth, or agreed on by the Churches in fit cases and measures, for greater Concord.
Of Liturgies I am to speak in the third Part: Only here 4. I add that fit words, and spiritual life, are the body and soul of worship, and one must not be pleaded against another, nor any by Formality mortifie holy worship and turn it into a Carkass or a lifeless ⟨p. 225⟩image; Nor yet on pretence of spirituality condemned the frequent use of the same words (commonly called Forms) whether prepared by the speaker who best knoweth what he needeth, or agreed on by the Churches in fit cases and measures, for greater Concord.
§. 42. IV. It is needful to the well-being of the Ministry and Churches that all Pastors in their places be not only allowed to use Christs true Discipline, but that it be expected and really done in every Church; and that this Discipline be neither cast aside, nor corrupted and turned into malignant war against the good, nor into tyranny and usurpation.