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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
22. These terms must be such as oppose not Holiness, but subserve it and promote it. The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, &c. Jam. 3. 11. And peace and holiness must not be separated, Heb. 12. 14. Though if possible, as much as in us lieth, we must live peaceably with all men, Rom. 12. 18.
22. These terms must be such as oppose not Holiness, but subserve it and promote it. The wisedom from above is first pure, then peaceable, &c. Jam. 3. 11. And peace and holiness must not be separated, Heb. 12. 14. Though if possible, as much as in us lieth, we must live peaceably with all men, Rom. 12. 18.
23. These terms must be such as take in all that Christ taketh in, and would have us take in: that is, All that are fit for Church Communion.
24. They should be such terms as all true Christians fit for such Church Communion if imposed would have ⟨p. 153⟩united in, in all ages and places of the Church since the days of Christ till now. For those terms that would have divided the Church, are not the fit means to unite it.