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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
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.
Of these twelve sorts of People,1 this Parish is composed; which I therefore mention, that the state of our Parishes may be truly known; while others are compared with this: For every one hath not had the opportunities which I have had, to know all their people, or the most.
- 1Beside, if all these were fit to be members, yet we must know their own consent, which mere living in the Parish, or coming to Church doth not signify.Beside, if all these were fit to be members, yet we must know their own consent, which meer living in the Parish, or comming to Church doth not signifie.
And now if all these are fit to go for Christians, then must we make a new kind of Christianity; and a new Gospel, and a new Christ. And if all these are fit to be Church-members, then we must make a new kind of Churches?
And why then may not those be Christians and Church-members, that never heard of the Name of Christ, as well as many of these?