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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.
§. 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.
§. 32. VIII. Those that separate from one or other particular Churches if by some great crime, and abuse must be used according to their fault as is after showed about Practice: But if either by tolerable weakness, or outward necessity they depart but from one Church, they must be received into others: If from all particular Churches (as some called Seekers) and not from the universal, they must be used as the seventh sort (those not yet entered.)
§. 32. VIII. Those that separate from one or other particular Churches if by some great crime, and abuse must be used according to their fault as is after shewed about Practice: But if either by tolerable weakness, or outward necessity they depart but from one Church, they must be received into others: If from all particular Churches (as some called Seekers) and not from the universal, they must be used as the seventh sort (those not yet entred.)