A55307:99
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.
4. Let some difference be made between a Confession of Faith, and a Summary or Institution of Christian Religion. In a Confession of Faith let nothing be inserted which is not necessary to Salvation: In a Christian Institution all things may be discoursed which may be thought any way useful or advantageous. Whatever is mentioned in a Creed Symbol on terms of Communion, beyond what is absolutely necessary, breaks the Church of God into Sects and Factions, and fills it full of quarrels, strife and contentions. Those that will promote the Peace of it, must require Assent and Profession only to some few necessary things; and in vain do men hope or expect, that the whole Church of God should be of the same mind in many or all things. In confessione scribendâ, ut nihil quod omnino sit cognitu necessarium praetermittendum est: ita quicquid addatur non necessarium (etiamsi alicqui verum & bonum sit) id ad Ecclesiae divisionem in Sectas pertinet, atque ad discordias & rixas; qui pacem & concordiam in Ecclesia vult esse, oportet eum rerum necessariarum confessione contentum esse; frustra enim speraverit aliquis fore unquam, ut cum Dei Ecclesia tam bene agatur, ut de rebus omnibus omnes idem sentiant; quare una illa reliqua est concordiae ratio, si qui necessaria amplectuntur, ferant see mutuo, & suas controversias inter se amanter, humaniterque uti fratres, tractent. Acont. ubi supra. pag. 367.
4. Let some difference be made between a Confession of Faith, and a Summary or Institution of Christian Religion. In a Confession of Faith let nothing be inserted which is not necessary to Salvation: In a Christian Institution all things may be discoursed which may be thought any way useful or advantageous. Whatever is mentioned in a Creed Symbol on terms of Communion, beyond what is absolutely necessary, breaks the Church of God into Sects and Factions, and fills it full of quarrels, strife and contentions. Those that will promote the Peace of it, must require Assent and Profession only to some few necessary things; and in vain do men hope or expect, that the whole Church of God should be of the same mind in many or all things. In confessione scribendâ, ut nihil quod omnino sit cognitu necessarium praetermittendum est: ita quicquid addatur non necessarium (etiamsi alicqui verum & bonum sit) id ad Ecclesiae divisionem in Sectas pertinet, atque ad discordias & rixas; qui pacem & concordiam in Ecclesia vult esse, oportet eum rerum necessariarum confessione contentum esse; frustra enim speraverit aliquis fore unquam, ut cum Dei Ecclesia tam bene agatur, ut de rebus omnibus omnes idem sentiant; quare una illa reliqua est concordiae ratio, si qui necessaria amplectuntur, ferant se mutuo, & suas controversias inter se amanter, humaniterque uti fratres, tractent. Acont. ubi supra. pag. 367.