A27066:103
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline,…
Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entitled, A defence of the principles of love.Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.
London: printed for Walter Kettilby, 1682
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.
15. The defects and faults of the Liturgy.
When Mr. Baxter in his Plea for Peace excepts against the whole Liturgy, all the Common-Prayer-Book-Forms in gross, as faulty and defective: In the same place he confesseth the faults to be no other, than what with them the Forms of Prayers may be used by a godly man either in obedience to Authority or for Unity, or when better cannot be had.
16. The Error of demanding a Scripture-text, or rule, for Ceremonies and Circumstances of Gods Worship.
16. The Errour of demanding a Scripture-text, or rule, for Ceremonies and Circumstances of Gods Worship.
Mr. Baxters Defence of the Principles of Love, Part 1. p. 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102.
There are men otherwise very honest, and truly godly, who think that the Scripture is intended by God, not only as a general, but a particular Law, or Rule, for all the very circumstances of Worship; and that the second commandment in particular, condemns all that is the invention of men, in or about the Worship of God; and that to deny this, is to deny the perfection of Scripture— I hope the number is but small that are of this opinion. We are obliged to take heed of countenancing this Error—For if it prevail, what abundance of hurt will it do?