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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.
CHAP. IX.
Objections answered.
§. 1. 1. Some object against any restraint in Religion, and the countenancing and preferring of one sort before others, and say that the Magistrate should equally tolerate all, or else he will discontent those that are but tolerated, and much more those whom he useth as intolerable; But this is so unchristian and unreasonable that I think it needless to say much against it. Few men that believe there is a God and a life to come, and that religion is mans duty and interest, can believe that God hath appointed Government for no higher ends than our bodily peace and safety. If men once believed what divers Popes have written, that the office of the Priest excelleth the Kings, as far as the soul excelleth the body, and as the Sun excelleth the Stars; it would cause religious people to set as light by Kings, as they do by these worldly things which Kings have power over.
§. 1. 1. SOme object against any restraint in Religion, and the countenancing and preferring of one sort before others, and say that the Magistrate should equally tolerate all, or else he will discontent those that are but tolerated, and much more those whom he useth as intolerable; But this is so unchristian and unreasonable that I think it needless to say much against it. Few men that believe there is a God and a life to come, and that religion is mans duty and interest, can believe that God hath appointed Government for no higher ends than our bodily peace and safety. If men once believed what divers Popes have written, that the office of the Priest excelleth the Kings, as far as the soul excelleth the body, and as the Sun excelleth the Stars; it would cause religious people to set as light by Kings, as they do by these worldly things which Kings have power over.