A dissuasive from the errours of the time wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours, and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scriptures / by Robert Baylie ...

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A dissuasive from the errours of the time wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours, and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scriptures / by Robert Baylie ...

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Baillie, Robert, 1599-1662.

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London :: Printed for Samuel Gellibrand ...,

1645.

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Brownists.

Congregational churches -- Controversial literature.

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"A dissuasive from the errours of the time wherein the tenets of the principall sects, especially of the Independents, are drawn together in one map, for the most part in the words of their own authours, and their maine principles are examined by the touch-stone of the Holy Scriptures / by Robert Baylie ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a29432.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• FOR The Right Honourable the Earle of Lauderdaile Lord Metellane.
• list of authors cited
• The CONTENTS of the following Treatise.
• The PREFACE.
• CHAP. I. The Original and Progresse of the BROWNISTS.
  • The Testimonies.
• CHAP. II. The Doctrine of the BROWNISTS.
  • The Testimonies.
• CHAP. III. The Original and Progresse of the Independents, and of their Carriage in New-England.
  • The Testimonies.
• CHAP. IV. The Carriage of the Independents in Holland, at Roterdam, and Arnhem.
  • The Testimonies.
• CHAP. V. The Carriage of the Independents at London.
  • The Testimonies.
• CHAP. VI. An Enumeration of the common Tenets of the Independents.
  • The Testimonies of the sixth Chapter.
• CHAP. VII. It is unjust scrupulosity to require satisfaction of the true grace of every Church-Member.
• CHAP. VIII. Concerning the right of Prophecying.
• CHAP. IX. Whether the power of Ecclesiastick Iurisdiction belongs to the People or to the Presbyterie.
• CHAP. X. Independencie is contrary to the Word of God.
• CHAP. XI. The thousand yeares of Christ his visible Raigne upon earth, is against Scripture.