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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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A. And why not? did the Heathen and Julian make those Fountains, or God make them for the use of Man and Beast? shall therefore an Idolater deprive the Christians of those which God made for the use and necessity of Man and Beast, What is sold in the shambles? 1 Cor. 12.25. But this you are to prove, if you will make an Argument of it, that when the Idolaters had taken water out of those Fountains, carried it to their Idol Temples, made use of it in their Idol worship, that then the Christians would take that water, and baptize believers in it; though yet there is more to be said for them, than for your Ceremonies, because to baptize in water, was Christs Institution. For the fountains, Julian might have Dedicated the Land thereabouts to Idols, and Devils, as well as the Fountains, and so the Christians should be afraid to sow Corn to maintain Life.
4ly. We meet in their Churches or places they built, use their Bells, Tenths, for maintenance of Ministers. Ergo.
A. 1. For places. 1st. Place hath no moral signification, as your Ceremonies. 2. Place is necessary, so not your Ceremonies. 3. Those places were built for the worship of the true God and Christ; though these blind Idolaters might also intend some Saint: But if they had been built only for the worship of a Saint, in imitation of the Heathens Demons, we would not meet in them, but done by them as Constantine did by the Idols Temples, razed some to the ground, and shut up others.