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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.
Nay did ever the Novatians, yea or the furious Prelatical Donatists make such bloody work as hath been made by Bishops, Councils and Emperors for the suppressing of dissenters? What hath been done at Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome, I have elsewhere showed. The late publisher of his travels in Egypt (Vaneslup a Roman, they say a Jesuit) tells us that Egypt is deprived of her ancient sort of inhabitants, destroyed for following Dioscorus, and that Justinian killed no less than two hundred thousand of them. I believe not his number. But if this be true, the tyrannical hereticaters are the Pikes in the pond, and a far more bloody and devouring sort of men, than most of those that they destroy as intolerable.
Nay did ever the Novatians, yea or the furious Prelatical Donatists make such bloody work as hath been made by Bishops, Councils and Emperors for the suppressing of dissenters? What hath been done at Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome, I have elsewhere shewed. The late publisher of his travels in Egypt (Vaneslup a Roman, they say a Jesuite) tells us that Egypt is deprived of her ancient sort of inhabitants, destroyed for following Dioscorus, and that Justinian killed no less than two hundred thousand of them. I believe not his number. But if this be true, the tyrannical hereticaters are the Pikes in the pond, and a far more bloody and devouring sort of men, than most of those that they destroy as intolerable.
3. But it is not yet divers Religions that is the subject in dispute: every different opinion or practice, or diversity in some small point in Religion, is not a divers Religion. He knoweth not what Religion is that thinketh that there are as many different Religions as there are controversies among religious persons. In a word, Bear a little or you must bear more.
§. 8. Obj. 8. But the tolerated will seduce the ignorant, and poison Souls: And therefore are no more to be tolerated than murderers, souls being more precious than bodies.