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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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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.
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.
2. Bells. It seems you use them all the while you are reading Prayers, and worshipping God in your Surplice, the Bells are Chiming: I thought the Bells had done when worship began.
2. Something must be done to give notice to the people what time the worship of God begins; so the Bell doth this day; to morrow it calls the people to a meeting about Town-affairs
3. Bells have no moral signification in them, as your Ceremonies.