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Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy…VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie…
Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyranny and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chief arguments and exceptions used in The bloody tenet, The compassionate Samaritan, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyrannie and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chiefe arguments and exceptions used in The bloudy tenent, The compassionate samaritane, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ia. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1645
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IT cannot be unknown to any, except such as are ignorant of Satan's devices, and altogether strangers to the Histories of former times, that when the Church cometh out of Idolatry, and out of bitter servitude and grievous pressures of conscience, all her storms are not over her head, but she begins to be assaulted and afflicted more then before with heresies, schisms, and home-bred disturbances. Which through the manifold wisdom and over-ruling dispensation of God, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will, is Englands lot this day, that this may be to those in whom the Lord hath no pleasure, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, that they may go and fall back ward, and be broken; & snared, and taken: that others, who are approved, may be made manifest; yea, that many may be purified, and tried, and made white; and that in the issue God may have the greater glory in making a sovereign remedy out of poysonfull Ingredients, and his ⟨image 3⟩people may say, blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things.
IT cannot be unknown to any, except such as are ignorant of Satans devices, and altogether strangers to the Histories of former times, that when the Church commeth out of Idolatry, and out of bitter servitude and grievous pressures of conscience, all her storms are not over her head, but she begins to be assaulted and afflicted more then before with heresies, schismes, and home-bred disturbances. Which through the manifold wisdome and over-ruling dispensation of God, who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will, is Englands lot this day, that this may be to those in whom the Lord hath no pleasure, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, that they may goe and fall back ward, and be broken; & snared, and taken: that others, who are approved, may be made manifest; yea, that many may be purified, and tried, and made white; and that in the issue God may have the greater glory in making a soveraign remedy out of poysonfull Ingredients, and his ⟨image 3⟩people may say, blessed be the Lord God of Israel who only doth wondrous things.