A69533:1450
Five disputations of church-government and worship
Five disputations of church-government and worship by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1659
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.
CHAP. III. Prop. 2. In such unlawful impositions (as aforementioned) it is an aggravation of the sin, if Governors pretend that their Ceremonies are Divine.
CHAP. III. Prop. 2. In such unlawfull impositions (as aforementioned) it is an aggravation of the sin, if Governors pretend that their Ceremonies are Divine.
§. 1. I shall be brief in the rest, having been so long on the former. The reason of this Proposition is clear: because 1. As is aforesaid, such pretenders do falsely accuse the Lord, and corrupt his word, and add to it their own inventions: contrary to those severe prohibitions, Deut. 12.32. Rev. 22.18.
§. 1. I shall be brief in the rest, having been so long on the former. The reason of this Proposition is clear: because 1. As is aforesaid, such pretenders do falsly accuse the Lord, and corrupt his word, and add to it their own inventions: contrary to those severe prohibitions, Deut. 12.32. Rev. 22.18.
§. 2. 2. Because it shows that man to be a false Prophet, or false teacher, that will say, Thus saith the Lord, when God hath not spoken it: and that will take the name of God in vain, affixing it to a lye. And as many judgements are threatened to such, so people are commanded not to hear them.