A27054:811
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.
II. Some of the great sort of Integrals added,1 that are needful, plain and certain, and therefore it is best in the very words of Scripture which all agree to, and this to be consented to by the approved and preferred Ministers, who shall have the Temples and public countenance and maintenance.
II. Some of the great sort of Integrals added,1 that are needful, plain and certain, and therefore it is best in the very words of Scripture which all agree to, and this to be consented to by the approved and preferred Ministers, who shall have the Temples and publick countenance and maintenance.
- 1This second may be spared, if the third be well done. And instead of both may well be a Catalogue of doctrines erroneous or doubtful which none shall preach or propagate, of which after.
III. A Catalogue of Doctrines of so great use as that none be suffered to Preach or privately dispute against them; And a Catalogue of sins, which none may commit: And those that break either of these Laws, and subscribe not to the Essentials first mentioned to be judged Intolerable (till reformed) in the Ministry. Who shall be judged Intolerable in the Commonwealth, the first rank of enemies here considered showeth. And what private members shall be Tolerated in the Churches may be gathered from what is said, viz. Those that join with the Tolerated Ministers, and violate not this last Prohibiting Law, by incorrigible opposition to the Truth here intimated, or by wicked or unpeaceable behaviour.
III. A Catalogue of Doctrines of so great use as that none be suffered to Preach or privately dispute against them; And a Catalogue of sins, which none may commit: And those that break either of these Laws, and subscribe not to the Essentials first mentioned to be judged Intolerable (till reformed) in the Ministry. Who shall be judged Intolerable in the Commonwealth, the first rank of enemies here considered sheweth. And what private members shall be Tolerated in the Churches may be gathered from what is said, viz. Those that joyn with the Tolerated Ministers, and violate not this last Prohibiting Law, by incorrigible opposition to the Truth here intimated, or by wicked or unpeaceable behaviour.