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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.
§. 34. X. The Papists should be used as men and as the faultier and weaker sort of Christians, but so as, 1. May secure Princes from being unwillingly subjected to a foreign Usurper or being abused by him or his Agents; and as may secure the people from the efficacy of their laws, for burning, killing and exterminating them: 2. And so as they may be soberly restrained from such seducing and hurting the souls of others as is after proved to be Intolerable.
§. 35. XI. Diocesans that are as Arch-Bishops and destroy not Parish Churches, Episcopacy and Discipline, are to be numbered either with the Promoted or Tolerated party as they are taken by the Rulers for the Best or second. But those that would unchurch Parish Churches and make them but Chapels, and set up only one tribunal for the Discipline of many hundred Parishes, and thereby make Discipline Impossible, and deprive particular Churches of the Rights given them by the spirit of Christ in his Apostles, or would silence and persecute faithful Ministers, or oppress the flocks, should be restrained from such abuse and Tyranny by the Prince.
§. 35. XI. Diocesans that are as Arch-Bishops and destroy not Parish Churches, Episcopacy and Discipline, are to be numbred either with the Promoted or Tolerated party as they are taken by the Rulers for the Best or second. But those that would unchurch Parish Churches and make them but Chapels, and set up only one tribunal for the Discipline of many hundred Parishes, and thereby make Discipline Impossible, and deprive particular Churches of the Rights given them by the spirit of Christ in his Apostles, or would silence and persecute faithful Ministers, or oppress the flocks, should be restrained from such abuse and Tyranny by the Prince.
§. 36. XII. The very same I say of the Synods and Classes of Presbyters, whether provincial or national.