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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.
Answ. 1. Who have poisoned the Church and souls with more errors and more palpable, than the Papists who are most against Toleration? 2. The merely Tolerated being discountenanced by Authority, have less advantage to deceive men than the Approved if as erroneous. 3. We plead for restraining men from poisoning souls by dangerous doctrines, and not for tolerating that. But every dissenter or mistaking person is not such a poisoner of souls. 4. The Tolerated speaking in public are more responsible and more easily convicted of their fault, than those that do it secretly where there are no witnesses; And this your violence cannot hinder. 5. As their errors will be openly known, so you have advantage openly to confute them, and to keep the people right.
Answ. 1. Who have poisoned the Church and souls with more errors and more palpable, than the Papists who are most against Toleration? 2. The meerly Tolerated being discountenanced by Authority, have less advantage to deceive men than the Approved if as erroneous. 3. We plead for restraining men from poisoning souls by dangerous doctrines, and not for tolerating that. But every dissenter or mistaking person is not such a poisoner of souls. 4. The Tolerated speaking in publick are more responsible and more easily convicted of their fault, than those that do it secretly where there are no witnesses; And this your violence cannot hinder. 5. As their errors will be openly known, so you have advantage openly to confute them, and to keep the people right.
§. 9. Obj. 9. But dissenting teachers will unsay what the Approved Teachers say, and hinder their work, and steal the hearts of the people from them, and make their calling bur densome to them.
Answ. 1. They are to be restrained from preaching against any great sure necessary doctrine or practice.