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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.
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.
§. 43. It is here supposed that the Catalogue imposed on the Approved maintained Ministers be not of too many things, nor of any, but great ⟨p. 264⟩and sure: And they that will needs stretch it to the utmost of plain and certain truths, need no other Catalogue of the third rank: And were it not that men are very inclinable to overdo in rigour against dissenters, I should rather leave out the third Catalogue; And that which the Tolerated be forbidden to Preach against, should be but the same Catalogue which the Approved must subscribe, and so two will be enough, so be it that all unpeaceable preaching as to the manner be restrained by the Justices of peace.