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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.
§. 6. If the charge be but general, (that the ⟨p. 245⟩Church is guilty of heresy or unsoundness in the faith) it is the duty of the accused Church to send to the offended the Profession of their Faith and Religion, which need to be no more than this, which the offended ought to take as satisfactory.
§. 6. If the charge be but general, (that the ⟨p. 245⟩Church is guilty of heresie or unsoundness in the faith) it is the duty of the accused Church to send to the offended the Profession of their Faith and Religion, which need to be no more than this, which the offended ought to take as satisfactory.
We hereby profess that we stand to our Baptismal Covenant, fiducially believing in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier, and give up our selves to him accordingly in these Relations, Believing the articles of all the Creeds in which the universal Church ever agreed, and desiring the things contained in the Lords Prayer, and consenting to obey the ten Commandments as delivered to us in nature and by Christ; and we profess our obligation and Consent, to Believe, Love and obey all that we do or shall understand to be the revealed word of God, even the sacred Canonical books of Scripture, and in this common Belief, and Love and practice, to live in the Communion of the universal Church of Christ: Renouncing the Devil, the world and the flesh as they are enemies to any of this, and all doctrines, desires and practices, contrary hereunto, so far as unfeignedly to endeavour to res••t and overcome them, and when we […] and sin, to rise by true repentance; And all this in Hope of the Love of God the Father, the Grace of the Son, in our Pardon, Justification and Adoption, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, and of the Perfection of these and of our selves with the Church in everlasting Glory.
We hereby profess that we stand to our Baptismal Covenant, fiducially believing in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier, and give up our selves to him accordingly in these Relations, Believing the articles of all the Creeds in which the universal Church ever agreed, and desiring the things contained in the Lords Prayer, and consenting to obey the ten Commandements as delivered to us in nature and by Christ; and we profess our obligation and Consent, to Believe, Love and obey all that we do or shall understand to be the revealed word of God, even the sacred Canonical books of Scripture, and in this common Belief, and Love and practice, to livein the Communion of the unniversal Church of Christ: Renouncing the Devil, the world and the flesh as they are enemies to any of this, and all doctrines, desires and practices, contrary hereunto, so far as unfeignedly to endeavour to rest and overcome them, and when we and sin, to rise by true repentance; And all this in Hope of the Love of God the Father, the Grace of the Son, in our Pardon, Justification and Adoption, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost, and of the Perfection of these and of our selves with the Church in everlasting Glory.