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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.
§. 10. Obj. 10. The number of the erroneous will increase by a toleration.
Answ. And the number of the ungodly that will say, swear, or do any thing for worldly respects; will increase by your mistaken way of suppressing them. 2. It is better that tolerated honest Christians erring in tolerable cases do increase, than that they be banished or destroyed, and a worldly Ministry thereby lift up, abhorred by the religious, and heading the malignant and profane against all serious piety.
Answ. And the number of the ungodly that will say, swear, or do any thing for worldly respects; will increase by your mistaken way of suppressing them. 2. It is better that tolerated honest Christians erring in tolerable cases do increase, than that they be banished or destroyed, and a worldly Ministry thereby lift up, abhorred by the religious, and heading the malignant and prophane against all serious piety.
3. Violence and Tyranny against good men for tolerable error, hath already increased that same error more than wiser means would have done, and hath introduced worse.