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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.
3. No man ought to take evil for good, nor to do evil because he thinketh it good; but first to use means for information, and then to judge better, and then to do better.
4. Though whatever is not of saith is sin, yet whatever is of error is of sin too and not of faith. And we are not for forcing men against their conscience to any thing unnecessary, or any thing which they are uncapable of, but for restraining them from that mischief which an erring judgement leaveth them to, and putting them on necessary duty which they can do: should they not be forced to feed their children if their Consciences be against it? Or to pay their debts, or their taxes, tithes and other dues?
4. Though whatever is not of saith is sin, yet whatever is of errour is of sin too and not of faith. And we are not for forcing men against their conscience to any thing unnecessary, or any thing which they are uncapable of, but for restraining them from that mischief which an erring judgement leaveth them to, and putting them on necessary duty which they can do: should they not be forced to feed their children if their Consciences be against it? Or to pay their debts, or their taxes, tythes and other dues?
§. 7. Obj. 7. On the other side some (and more) will say that any toleration of diversity in Religion, especially of Assemblies, is contrary to the unity and harmony which should be among Christians, and will cherish heart-burnings, and cause differences in the State, and foment seditions and rebellious, no discord having worse effects than those about religion.