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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. IX.
BUT what means all this Discourse? Why this is the meaning of it. Union and Peace among Christians is a very fine thing, and greatly desirable; ⟨p. 43⟩but so various are the Understandings, and so great and inveterate are the prejudices of men, that Union of Judgment can never be expected, with any probability, unless in a few, plain, necessary things. Peace, Union, and Love was preserved in the Christian Church in the Primo-Primitive times, upon such terms, upon the consent unto, and agreement in a few plain, necessary things. Those were thought then sufficient, and they are so still, though the belief of it be perished from among men. Those persons that suspend the Peace of the Church, upon many dark, useless, and controverted Propositions and Doctrines, and will prosecute all Dissenters by severe and sanguinary Laws, (I will say it over again) do but take a fair way to destroy the Church of God, and leave nothing but the empty Name of Religion in the World.
BUT what means all this Discourse? Why this is the meaning of it. Union and Peace among Christians is a very fine thing, and greatly desireable; ⟨p. 43⟩but so various are the Understandings, and so great and inveterate are the prejudices of men, that Union of Judgment can never be expected, with any probability, unless in a few, plain, necessary things. Peace, Union, and Love was preserved in the Christian Church in the Primo-Primitive times, upon such terms, upon the consent unto, and agreement in a few plain, necessary things. Those were thought then sufficient, and they are so still, though the belief of it be perished from among men. Those persons that suspend the Peace of the Church, upon many dark, useless, and controverted Propositions and Doctrines, and will prosecute all Dissenters by severe and sanguinary Laws, (I will say it over again) do but take a fair way to destroy the Church of God, and leave nothing but the empty Name of Religion in the World.