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Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of…
Confirmation and restoration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the sovereign powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and welfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.Confirmation and restauration the necessary means of reformation, and reconciliation; for the healing of the corruptions and divisions of the churches: submissively, but earnestly tendered to the consideration of the soveraigne powers, magistrates, ministers, and people, that they may awake, and be up and doing in the execution of so much, as appeareth to be necessary as they are true to Christ, his Church and Gospel, and to their own and others souls, and to the peace and wellfare of the nations; and as they will answer the neglect to Christ, at their peril. / By Richard Baxter, an unworthy minister of Christ, that longeth to see the healing of the churches.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons book-seller, 1658
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The Testimonies cited by me on another occasion, in the foresaid Disputations, show the Judgment of Protestants in these Points, and somewhat of the Judgment of Antiquity. I shall recite but those on the Title page of the third Disputation.
The Testimonies cited by me on another occasion, in the foresaid Disputations, shew the Judgment of Protestants in these Points, and somewhat of the Judgment of Antiquity. I shall recite but those on the Title page of the third Disputation.
Tertullian Apologet. cap. 16. Sed dices etiam de n•stris, excedere quosdam à Regulis disciplinae. Desi•unt tum Christiani haberi penes res: Philosophi verò illi cum talibus factis, in Nomine & honore Sapientiae perseverant:that is, But you'll say, that even of ⟨p. 47⟩ours, some swerve from (or forsake) the Rules of Discipline.
Tertullian Apologet. cap. 16. Sed dices etiam de n•stris, excedere quosdam à Regulis disciplinae. Desi•unt tum Christiani haberi penes res: Philosophi verò illi cum talibus factis, in Nomine & honore Sapientiae perseverant:that is, But you'l say, that even of ⟨p. 47⟩ours, some swarve from (or forsake) the Rules of Discipline.
Answ. They cease then to be counted Christians with us: But your Philosophers with such deeds, do keep the Name and honour of Wisdom.