Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

All fin.ftil werJbipnot idolatry. z9i dering thoughts anddull affeCtións ? Is there any of the le Love killers that dare fay they pray with- out fin?And mull we not feparate from them then as idolaters? Yea and every man from himfelf; that is, He mull give over praying becaufe its all Ido- latry ? But perhaps they will fay; This fin is but in the manner and not in thematter. .info. Very good ; It Teems then that fin in the manner of worship is not Idolatry. And how prove you that the faults of the Liturgy are not as far from the Matter of the worfhip, as your own are ? Will you findfosse words which you can call falfe in the matter? Suppofe it were fo ? When an Antinomian, an Anabaptift , a Separatift, or anyone that erreth doth drop fome ofhis errours in his prayers, (as I think none will deny that they ufe to do) mull we needs believe that his prayer is Idolatry therefore, as being falfe worfhip? And is it unlawful to joyn with fuch ? Then we Thal! have more feparation than you yet plead for, or praóife your felves. No' two men in the world mutt joyn together if allfinftil worfhip, or worfhip falfe fometime in the very matter doth neteffitate a feparation : At leaf+ where no one knoweth be. fore hand what another will fay with his tongue, when I know that every man hath fome falfe opi- nion in his mind. But where did there men learn to call their brethrens worship falfe any more than their own, upon the account that God hath not com- manded the manner of it; when he hath neither commanded us to .ufe a form , nor toforbear it; but by general precepts of doing all to edificati- on ?

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