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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.
§. 29. V. The middle sort of Christians must be governed and instructed, with encouragement to grow, and the body of a Christian Commonwealth well ordered will be most of such.
§. 30. VI. The ignorant, faulty and weak must be pitied and gently used, but as children, under more teaching, restraint and necessary rebukes, than better men.
§. 30. VI. The ignorant, faulty and weak must be pityed and gently used, but as children, under more teaching, restraint and necessary rebukes, than better men.
§. 31. VII. Those that are not yet entered into any particular Churches Communion, under any known particular Pastor, if necessarily such (as persons that have no dwelling, but wander up and down, as Pedlars &c.) are to be pitied and suffered, if we cannot help them to better. Those that being baptized only into the universal Church (as wanderers children &c.) and are not come to knowledge or desire, should be taught, and persuaded into Church order as a second sort of Catechumens: Those that are hindered by the disorder or persecution of the place and times, must be pitied and patiently born with.
§. 31. VII. Those that are not yet entred into any particular Churches Communion, under any known particular Pastor, if necessarily such (as persons that have no dwelling, but wander up and down, as Pedlars &c.) are to be pityed and suffered, if we cannot help them to better. Those that being baptized only into the universal Church (as wanderers children &c.) and are not come to knowledge or desire, should be taught, and perswaded into Church order as a second sort of Catechumens: Those that are hindred by the disorder or persecution of the place and times, must be pityed and patiently born with.