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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.
SECT. V.
NOW the great Cause (in my apprehension) of all the Divisions, Quarrels, Schisms and Separations that are in the Christian World, is the making and imposing things unnecessary, doubtful, difficult, unintelligible, unprofitable, and numerous, the Conditions of Church Communion. This hath rent and torn the Church of God in pieces these thirteen hundred years; and yet those that are the Guides and Governors of Churches, either cannot, or will not see it. Let the Histories of the Church be consulted, and this may be easily observed. What is it that divides the Greek and Roman Churches from each other? What is it that divides the Greek Churches among themselves? What is it that divides the Roman Churches from those of the Protestant Profession? What divides the Lutherans and Calvinists? What is it that divides the Christian People of this Nation? Is it not the Imposing of things doubtful, dark, uncertain, and unnecessary, and this with a pertinacious and inflexible rigour, and severity one against another?
NOW the great Cause (in my apprehension) of all the Divisions, Quarrels, Schisms and Separations that are in the Christian World, is the making and imposing things unnecessary, doubtful, difficult, unintelligible, unprofitable, and numerous, the Conditions of Church Communion. This hath rent and torn the Church of God in pieces these thirteen hundred years; and yet those that are the Guides and Governours of Churches, either cannot, or will not see it. Let the Histories of the Church be consulted, and this may be easily observed. What is it that divides the Greek and Roman Churches from each other? What is it that divides the Greek Churches among themselves? What is it that divides the Roman Churches from those of the Protestant Profession? What divides the Lutherans and Calvinists? What is it that divides the Christian People of this Nation? Is it not the Imposing of things doubtful, dark, uncertain, and unnecessary, and this with a pertinacious and inflexible rigour, and severity one against another?