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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.
TO proceed therefore to three or four things more I have to propose, and are yet behind. The one of them, that is, the One and twentieth, is, Let not these Tolerated Churches be accounted Schismatics, but let them have the same Estimation that the Churches of the Jewish Communion had from those that were of the Gentile Communion, some Diversity in Rites and Ceremonies there was between these Churches then, but they did not repute each other as Schismatics; they accounted each other True Churches notwithstanding that Diversity of Opinion and Practices that were among them, and so for ought I can see, might we also. Is it reasonable or just ⟨p. 88⟩to deny those to be true Men, that do differ in the Manner of their Dress, and in the Colour or Fashion of their Garments? Or can it be affirmed with Truth, that the Indians in America are not of the same Humane Race with us, because they go almost naked, and we cover, and dress, and adorn our selves with all the fine things that Nature and Art can furnish us withal? In some parts of Persia (as Herbert reports in his Travels) they expose their Dead, in others they burn them, and we bury them. The Essedons among the Scythians mince their Dead Friends with the Flesh of Beasts, and eat them. Morendo il padre ad alcuno, tutti i suoi parenti portano ivi piu pecore, & amuzzetele & fattele in pezzi, minuzzano ancho il morte padre de colui, che gli ha invitate, e mescolate tutte le carni insieme, mongiano di compagnia, e scorticata e nettata la testa del morto la indorano e seen serveno per un simulacro all quale agni anno fanno maggiori ceremony, & amazzano maggior vittime, as the Italian Giovanni Boemo has it, in his Book of the Customs of Nations. The differing Manners of People are reconcilable with the same Common Nature. And if these be true Men, notwithstanding those things in which they differ from us, so may these that I have spoken of be true Churches, notwithstanding they may differ in some things from those that have the Countenance, Favour and Establishment of the Government and the Law.
TO proceed therefore to three or four things more I have to propose, and are yet behind. The one of them, that is, the One and twentieth, is, Let not these Tolerated Churches be accounted Schismaticks, but let them have the same Estimation that the Churches of the Jewish Communion had from those that were of the Gentile Communion, some Diversity in Rites and Ceremonies there was between these Churches then, but they did not repute each other as Schismaticks; they accounted each other True Churches notwithstanding that Diversity of Opinion and Practices that were among them, and so for ought I can see, might we also. Is it reasonable or just