Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

What are things ncct ary. 363 purge too much and which too little?Muff there- fore all be ufed indifferently or none ? It I am not able to enumerate jufl how n ny faults or weak- neffes may be tollerable in my fervants? Muff I therefore have none, till I have thofe that are faultlefs? or elfe muff I allow them to do any thing that they liff ? Though juif at the verge of evil, even that which is good may be matter of doubt, yet God in Nature and Scripture hath given us faf- ficient light for an upright,fafe & peaceable life. Thirdly, And ifever Baptifm had been well underflood, by thefe objectors, the effentials of Chriflianity had been underilood. Math not Chrift himfelf determined who they be that íhalt be admitted into the Church and numbered with Chriflians,in the very tenor ofthe Baptifmal Co- venant ? And did not theChurch take the Creed to be fufficient for its proper ufe, which was to be the matter of theChriftian pro, fejon, as to the Articles of faith to be believed ? And yet are we now to feek in the end of the world, what Chri- flianity is, and what are the effentials of our faith, and who is to be received as a profeffor of Chri- fiianity. But this is a fubjeet more largely to be hand. led if Rulers will permit it: And in the mean time becaufe it is not the Magiftrates but the Paifors that I amnow fpeaking to, I hull pretermit the moll which is to be faid, and onlyacquaint you in the conclufion, that one of there followingwages muff be choral. I.Either to tollerate all men todo what they Evil; which theywill make a matter of confcience or religion ; And then fume, may offer their chi!. drë j

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