A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
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A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order.
Author
Congregational Churches in England.
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London :: printed for Nath. Ponder, at the Peacock in the Poultry,
1688.
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Subject terms
Congregational churches -- Catechisms -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- Doctrines -- Early works to 1800.
Congregational churches -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England; agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers. Licensed and entred according to order." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52593.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
Pages
III.
Although the Magistrate is bound to incourage, promote, and protect the Professor and Profession of the Gos∣pel, and to manage and order Civil Administrations in a due Subserviency to the Interest of Christ in the World, and to that end to take care that Men of corrupt Minds and Conversations do not licentiously publish and di∣vulge Blasphemy and Errors in their own Nature, subverting the Faith, and inevitably destroying the Souls of them that receive them: Yet in such diffe∣rences about the Doctrines of the Gos∣pel, or ways of the Worship of God, as may befall Men exercising a good Conscience, manifesting it in their Con∣versation, and holding the Foundati∣on, not disturbing others in their ways
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or Worship that differ from them; there is no warrant for the Magistrate under the Gospel to abridge them of their Liberty.
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