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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.
All particular Churches are not equally soun• and strong, nor capable of equal Peace and Un• on, and to attempt it by violent remedies wi•• certainly increase their Diseases, and make the•• wounds and breaches greater, and destroy man• of the Members of it, if not the whole; and I fea• this is the Case of the Church of England, which I humbly commend to the Consideration of th• ⟨p. 109⟩Ecclesiastical Physicians. I doubt we are not capable as yet of so much Union and Peace, as may be found in some other of the Reformed Churches; What we may be in the next, or in some future Ages, if we happen on Skilful Physicians, I will not determine, but I hope well.
All particular Churches are not equaly soun• and strong, nor capable of equal Peace and Un• on, and to attempt it by violent remedies wi•• certainly encrease their Diseases, and make the•• wounds and breaches greater, and destroy man• of the Members of it, if not the whole; and I fea• this is the Case of the Church of England, whic• I humbly commend to the Consideration of th• ⟨p. 109⟩Ecclesiastical Physicians. I doubt we are not capable as yet of so much Union and Peace, as may be found in some other of the Reformed Churches; What we may be in the next, or in some future Ages, if we happen on Skilful Physicians, I will not determine, but I hope well.