7. Another great Impediment to our Concord is, Abundance of dividing unpeaceable Principles, that be grown into credit, or en∣tertained in the world: And if such Principles meet with the most Peaceable disposition, they will make the man become un∣peaceable. For the best men that are, will think they must obey
The true Catholick, and Catholick church described. And the vanity of the Papists, and all other schismaticks, that confine the Catholick church to their sect, discovered and shamed. / By Richard Baxter, a member of that one Universal Church, which containeth all the true Christians in the world. With an apologetical postscript against the factious principles and writings of Mr T. Malpas, Mr T Pierce, Philo-Tilenus, and such others.
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- The true Catholick, and Catholick church described. And the vanity of the Papists, and all other schismaticks, that confine the Catholick church to their sect, discovered and shamed. / By Richard Baxter, a member of that one Universal Church, which containeth all the true Christians in the world. With an apologetical postscript against the factious principles and writings of Mr T. Malpas, Mr T Pierce, Philo-Tilenus, and such others.
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"The true Catholick, and Catholick church described. And the vanity of the Papists, and all other schismaticks, that confine the Catholick church to their sect, discovered and shamed. / By Richard Baxter, a member of that one Universal Church, which containeth all the true Christians in the world. With an apologetical postscript against the factious principles and writings of Mr T. Malpas, Mr T Pierce, Philo-Tilenus, and such others." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76222.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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God; and therefore when they mistake his will, they will think they do well when they are sin∣ing against him. There are too few in the world, of peaceable Principles: some lay all Peace, as is said, on the Opinions of their own parties; and some lay it on a multitude of such low opini∣ons, and such doubtfull things, that they might know, can ne∣ver be the matter of universal consent: some think they must not silence any thing which they conceive to be a truth, for the peace of the Church, or the pro∣moting of greater undoubted truths. Some think they ought to reproach and disgrace all that are not of their mind, and some think they ought to destroy them, or cast them out, and think this a part of their faithfulness to the truth of Christ, and that this is but to help him against his ene∣mies.
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And there is no more de∣sparate principle of division and persecution, then this unchari∣tableness, which makes the Chil∣dren of God, and the members of Christ, to seem his enemies, and then use them as his enemies: to dresse them in a false attire, as they did Christ, and then smite him: to put them in the shape of Schismaticks, or Hereticks, or Devils, (as the Papists do when they burn them) and then use them accordingly. Many more unpeaceable Principles I might recite; and if it were not too te∣dious, I think it would be use∣full.