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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.
YET after all that I have said to evince the Improbability, or rather Impossibility of Union among Christians in many things, especially such as are dark and doubtful, and of little use or necessity, I do not intend to affirm that Christians can agree in nothing, or that all Uniformity of Judgment is impossible and impracticable among them; no, I do with much assurance say, That Christians may, do, and will agree in all the Essential and Constituent Parts of Christianity, and that Peace and Love may be maintained notwithstanding very great variety of Opinions, and some different practices too in other things.
That Christians will agree in the great Essentials of Christian Religion, is apparent; for they do so, Greeks and Romans, with all the several Subdivisions that are among them, do consent in ⟨p. 33⟩one Common Creed, Rule of Life, and Compendium of Prayer and Devotion; all Protestants, Calvinists, Lutherans, and Arminians, or by whatever other title they may be known or called, consent with them in the great Agenda, Credenda, & Petenda in Religion. In these things there is no diversity among them; those things are so obvious in the Scripture, and many of them in the Light of Nature, and by the Providence of God have been so superintended, that in the greatest defections of the Church, and Apostasy of Christians, the knowledge and belief of them hath been preserved and continued amongst all.
That Christians will agree in the great Essentials of Christian Religion, is apparent; for they do so, Greeks and Romans, with all the several Subdivisions that are among them, do consent in ⟨p. 33⟩one Common Creed, Rule of Life, and Compedium of Prayer and Devotion; all Protestants, Calvinists, Lutherans, and Arminians, or by whatever other title they may be known or called, consent with them in the great Agenda, Credenda, & Petenda in Religion. In these things there is no diversity among them; those things are so obvious in the Scripture, and many of them in the Light of Nature, and by the Providence of God have been so superintended, that in the greatest defections of the Church, and Apostacy of Christians, the knowledge and belief of them hath been preserved and continued amongst all.