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The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must…The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must…
The Samaritan showing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oil that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.The Samaritan shewing that many and unnecessary impositions are not the oyl that must heal the church together with the way or means to do it / by a country gentleman who goes to common-prayer and not to meetings.
London: printed for Tho. Simmons, 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.
6. Let nothing be condemned or rejected in this Creed or Symbol, but what is inconsistent with the Faith of things absolutely necessary to Salvation. Let no Errors be condemned in it, but such as exclude from the Kingdom of Heaven. If Errors of inferior nature be condemned in it, 'twill become an Engine of Division, and not an Instrument of Peace; 'twill exclude many ⟨p. 60⟩from the Communion of the Church, which ought to be received unto it, and so be an occasion of Separation and Schism. And I know nothing almost that hath occasioned more mischief, and brought more fatal Calamities upon the Churches of Christ, than the enlarging of Creeds and Confessions, under pretence of obviating Errors and Heresies. This one Engine hath caused more Schisms and Separations, and shed more blood, and caused more desolations than all the Heathen Persecutions; and yet notwithstanding the Lamentable Experience of so many Ages, 'tis still kept in use: And I believe the Devil is very loth to part with it; he hath found such success and advantage by it, that he will never forsake or abandon the use of it, if possibly he can: And there are many men (and some that do pretend to be no Friends to him, or his Interests) that seem to be almost as loth to part with this blessed Invention as the Devil himself. Optandum foret ut qui publica templa & munera occupant, in sua confessione, doctrina, ceremoniis, aliisque see intra primorum Christianorum & Apostolorum simplicitatem & generalitatem continerent, aut duodecim illis Catholicae Fidei Articulis, Symbolo Apostol. contentis, hoc est paucis admodum, & paucis ceremoniis, contenti essent, & in aliorum conscientias Dominium non usurparent, adeo ut omnes absque animi offensione publicos illos coetus frequentare, & ibi inter se Eucharistiam celebrare possent. Curcellaeus in his Preface to Episcopius.
6. Let nothing be condemned or rejected in this Creed or Symbol, but what is inconsistent with the Faith of things absolutely necessary to Salvation. Let no Errours be condemned in it, but such as exclude from the Kingdom of Heaven. If Errours of inferiour nature be condemned in it, 'twill become an Engine of Division, and not an Instrument of Peace; 'twill exclude many ⟨p. 60⟩from the Communion of the Church, which ought to be received unto it, and so be an occasion of Separation and Schism. And I know nothing almost that hath occasioned more mischief, and brought more fatal Calamities upon the Churches of Christ, than the enlarging of Creeds and Confessions, under pretence of obviating Errours and Heresies. This one Engine hath caused more Schisms and Separations, and shed more blood, and caused more desolations than all the Heathen Persecutions; and yet notwithstanding the Lamentable Experience of so many Ages, 'tis still kept in use: And I believe the Devil is very loth to part with it; he hath found such success and advantage by it, that he will never forsake or abandon the use of it, if possibly he can: And there are many men (and some that do pretend to be no Friends to him, or his Interests) that seem to be almost as loth to part with this blessed Invention as the Devil himself. Optandum foret ut qui publica templa & munera occupant, in sua confessione, doctrina, ceremoniis, aliisque se intra primorum Christianorum & Apostolorum simplicitatem & generalitatem continerent, aut duodecim illis Catholicae Fidei Articulis, Symbolo Apostol. contentis, hoc est paucis admodum, & paucis ceremoniis, contenti essent, & in aliorum conscientias Dominium non usurparent, adeo ut omnes absque animi offensione publicos illos coetus frequentare, & ibi inter se Eucharistiam celebrare possent. Curcellaeus in his Preface to Episcopius.