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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.
96. All men are agreed in Reason, and in the Love of Nature (for so far as men have put off Nature, they have put off humanity): Therefore the Laws of Nature and Rules of equity which Reason dictates, are the true Jus gentium, which is the ground of Commerce in the world, without which men live as strangers or as foes.
97. That which all Christians are agreed in, is Christianity and Godliness; that is, in their one Baptismal Covenant, and in that one faith or Creed which is there professed, and in the Lords Prayer and Decalogue as the summaries of things to be Willed and to be Done; In these I say, explicitly or particularly, and in the holy Scriptures generally, as far as they can understand them. Greeks, Papists and Protestants are agreed in all this; that is, 1. In the Sacramental Covenant, 2. In the three summaries of the Credenda, Appetenda, Agenda, 3. And in the Canon of the holy Scriptures in General, that is, in so many books as they are convinced are the true Canon, and in so much of the sense as they can understand. And who can Unite them upon other and narrower terms than these?
97. That which all Christians are agreed in, is Christianity and Godliness; that is, in their one Baptismal Covenant, and in that one faith or Creed which is there professed, and in the Lords Prayer and Decalogue as the summaries of things to be Willed and to be Done; In these I say, explicitely or particularly, and in the holy Scriptures generally, as far as they can understand them. Greeks, Papists and Protestants are agreed in all this; that is, 1. In the Sacramental Covenant, 2. In the three summaries of the Credenda, Appetenda, Agenda, 3. And in the Canon of the holy Scriptures in General, that is, in so many books as they are convinced are the true Canon, and in so much of the sence as they can understand. And who can Unite them upon other and narrower terms than these?