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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.
Je pretends que tout celase fasse sans rompre la paix & l'union que nous devons entretenir avec ceux qui ont des sentiments different. I desire that we do carefully distinguish betwixt those Doctrines that are so clearly established in the Word of God, that all Christians are obliged to receive them; and those that have need of the Thoughts and Industry of men for the Elucidation of them; and that we admit no other than the first as fundamental and invariable; and that we may dispense with our selves in receiving the others without hazard of our Salvation, which doth not depend but on the former: And I do affirm, that this may be done without breach of that Peace and Union which we ought to maintain with those that in these second sort of things are of different Opinions. See that excellent Book La reunion du Christianism, p. 159, 160. and all over.
Je pretends que tout celase fasse sans rompre la paix & l'union que nous devons entretenir avec ceux qui ont des sentiments different. I desire that we do carefully distinguish betwixt those Doctrines that are so clearly established in the Word of God, that all Christians are obliged to receive them; and those that have need of the Thoughts and Industry of men for the Elucidation of them; and that we admit no other than the first as fundamental and invariable; and that we may dispence with our selves in receiving the others without hazard of our Salvation, which doth not depend but on the former: And I do affirm, that this may be done without breach of that Peace and Union which we ought to maintain with those that in these second sort of things are of different Opinions. See that excellent Book La reunion du Christianisme, p. 159, 160. and all over.
12. Many things may be forbidden by our Governors to the Clergy, which they ought not to oblige them to abjure or renounce. Suppose a Clergy-man should have entertained an Opinion that Ordination by Presbyters is lawful and valid, and that a Particular or Parochial Church is endowed with all Power, that Christ Jesus hath given to his Church: Peradventure our Governors may without any hurt or injury to him, or any other else, forbid him the publishing of these Opinions, or making Proselytes to them; but why he should be obliged to renounce them, I do not understand. He may be a good man, and capable of serving God in the Gospel of his Son, though he should be of that persuasion in those things; and though he cannot renounce them, he may be very willing to silence, and keep secret his Sentiments, in obedience to his Superiors, and for the sake of Peace. Again, to the like purpose Submission to many things may be more safely required, than approbation; and there are multitudes of pious and peaceable men, that could endure and bear with many things that they can never approve. Many men peradventure might endure the use of the Cross in Baptism, and the denial of the Sacrament to such as refuse to take it kneeling, and the singing of Prayers in an unintelligible tone, and many other things which they would never like nor approve. And indeed such is the World, and such is the Church, that many things must be endured, which cannot,