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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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1. There is a Christian love common to all.
2. There is a Christian Ecclesiastical love proper to some; as for Christian love I am bound to manifest that to the bodies and souls of all, though Heathens. I will pray with Heathens, (a silly thing to turn Excommunicated persons from Prayer, which is Natural Worship) I will Preach to Heathens; I will exhort, reprove, encourage Heathens privately; to comfort a Heathen as a Christian, I cannot; else I call not to mind what effects of love I manifest to a Christian, but I will to a Heathen.
But for Christian Ecclesiastical love, manifested by Communion in these Symbols or signs, I will not manifest that to one Heathen, only to the members of this visible body, being one with them.
As for Episcopal Government, which Dr. Goodman, and this late Commencer adds,