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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.
3. Let the Essential Parts of Christianity be so carefully collected, that there be no defect, nor no redundance: Let there be no defect, lest such persons as are no professed Christians, be admitted to the Communion of the Church: Let ⟨p. 57⟩there be no redundance, lest those that are true Christians, and believe all the Essentials of the Christian Religion, be excluded and denied their proper Privilege and Right. Jacobus Acontius discoursing of a Common Creed to be used among all Christians, and to be reputed the Test and Condition of Communion, speaks as followeth. Ac oportet quidem confessionem ejusmodi esse instar definitionis cujusdam, quemadmodum enim requiritur, ut definitio neque plura complectatur, neque pauciora, quam res ipsa, quae definitur; (viz.) ut nihil desit, nihil redundet: ita in fidei symbolo nihil deesse oportet eorum quae sunt ad salutem cognitu necessaria; nil etiam contineri debet, absque cujus cognitione contingere salus possit: Si deesset etenim aliquid cognitu necessarium, fieret ut qui Christianus haberi non debuit, neque Ecclesiae Dei Membrum, propterea quod profiteretur illud symbolum, haberetur pro Christiano. Sin contineretur Symbolo aliquid non necessarium cognitu, usu venire posset, ut qui confiterentur quae essent necessaria, ut qui cum suâ qualicunque fide salvi esse possent, propterea quod non reciperent id absque cujus cognitione contingere salus possit, cum essent pro Christianis & Ecclesiae membris agnoscendi, rejicerentur; at sineque desit, neque redundet quicquam, jam neque rejicerentur, nisi qui sunt rejiciendi, neque recipientur, nisi qui sunt recipiendi, atque ita aptissimum fuerit Symbolum, quo Christiani à non Christianis discernuntur. Acontii Strat. Satanae. lib. 7. pag. 366.
3. Let the Essential Parts of Christianity be so carefully collected, that there be no defect, nor no redundance: Let there be no defect, lest such persons as are no professed Christians, be admitted to the Communion of the Church: Let ⟨p. 57⟩there be no redundance, lest those that are true Christians, and believe all the Essentials of the Christian Religion, be excluded and denyed their proper Priviledge and Right. Jacobus Acontius discoursing of a Common Creed to be used among all Christians, and to be reputed the Test and Condition of Communion, speaks as followeth. Ac oportet quidem confessionem ejusmodi esse instar definitionis cujusdam, quemadmodum enim requiritur, ut definitio neque plura complectatur, neque pauciora, quam res ipsa, quae definitur; (viz.) ut nihil desit, nihil redundet: ita in fidei symbolo nihil deesse oportet eorum quae sunt ad salutem cognitu necessaria; nil etiam contineri debet, absque cujus cognitione contingere salus possit: Si deesset etenim aliquid cognitu necessarium, fieret ut qui Christianus haberi non debuit, neque Ecclesiae Dei Membrum, propterea quod profiteretur illud symbolum, haberetur pro Christiano. Sin contineretur Symbolo aliquid non necessarium cognitu, usu venire posset, ut qui confiterentur quae essent necessaria, ut qui cum suâ qualicunque fide salvi esse possent, propterea quod non reciperent id absque cujus cognitione contingere salus possit, cum essent pro Christianis & Ecclesiae membris agnoscendi, rejicerentur; at sineque desit, neque redundet quicquam, jam neque rejicerentur, nisi qui sunt rejiciendi, neque recipientur, nisi qui sunt recipiendi, atque ita aptissimum fuerit Symbolum, quo Christiani à non Christianis discernuntur. Acontii Strat. Satanae. lib. 7. pag. 366.