The Difference of the Case, Between the Separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the Separation of Dissenters from the Church of England

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Thomas Basset at the George in Fleetstreet, and Fincham Gardiner at the White Horse in Ludgate-street., 1683 - 71 páginas

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Página 71 - Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus ; that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 10 - The separation of the Church of England from the Church of Rome...
Página 52 - And in these our doings we condemn no other nations, nor prescribe any thing but to our own people only : for we think it convenient that every country should use such ceremonies as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's honour and glory, and to the reducing of the people to a most perfect and godly living, without error or superstition...
Página 26 - So that whilst our brethren allow the determination of indifferent things to authority, they take away with one hand what they give with the other. For according to their principles, there is nothing left for authority to determine, as to the ordering of God's public worship.
Página 69 - ... to be in writing of them. Be as strict as you will in examining what we say in behalf of our Church, only be willing that truth should overcome ; and consider, that if that prevails against your errors, you indeed are the conquerors, and that the greatest gain will be yours, both in this world, and the world to come.
Página 53 - ... to our own people only. For we think it convenient that every country should use such Ceremonies, as they shall think best to the setting forth of God's honour and glory, and to the reducing of the people to a most perfect and godly living, without error or superstition: and that they should put away other things, which from time to time they perceive to be most abused, as in men's ordinances it often chanceth diversely in divers countries.
Página 70 - That it may pleafe thee to bring into the way of truth all fuch as have erred and are deceived...
Página 47 - P. 4. necessary to be done, and what is necessary not to be done, does withal shew what is lawful to be done or to be forborne. And as an erroneous persuasion that something is lawful which God hath forbidden, will not acquit any man that hath the means of better information, from sin, in doing according to his persuasion of the lawfulness of what he does ; so neither will any man's erroneous persuasion, that his superiors require him to do what is unlawful, when the thing itself is lawful, acquit...

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