A27066:13
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
Letter: Mr. BAXTER's EPISTLE TO THE Non-Conformists, Being a just and true Abstract of his Defe…
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BRETHREN,
IT grieves me to the heart that neither Party,1 Conformable or Non-conformable, is more sensible of the sin and danger of our distance (though I know that in both Parties there are many wise and holy persons, who, I suppose, lament it more than I do.) It layeth my soul in daily lamentations to see how we run further from each other, to the apparent danger of the Protestant Cause, and of the Kingdoms welfare, and of all the hopes of our Posterity.
- 1Pag. 18.
1Our narrow Judgment draws many to think that it is the Interest of Religion now in England to have the Parish-Churches brought low in reputation, and deserted, and God's public worship which they would have all religious People use, to be only that of tolerated, or more private Churches, by which they little know what they wish against the Interest of the Christian and Protestant Religion in this Land, and what hurt they would do, if in this they had their wills.
1Our narrow Judgment draws many to think that it is the Interest of Religion now in England to have the Parish-Churches brought low in reputation, and deserted, and God's publick worship which they would have all religious People use, to be onely that of tolerated, or more private Churches, by which they little know what they wish against the Interest of the Christian and Protestant Religion in this Land, and what hurt they would do, if in this they had their wills.