Baxter - BX1763 B28

(12.60' and waslotroothinon long before theCouncil at Con- fiance :Daré yOu fay that it Was,fo from the beginning;or ofold ? 3. Can you pofliblybelieve that your forbidding men to read the Scriptures in a lfnoWn Tongue without a Licence is ,tot a Novelty, if ever, you read chryfoflom, 448gmfline, 7ereine, or any thingofthe Ancients ? 4. Isit nOt a Novelty for the pUblick Prayers ofthe Church to be ordinarily made in a Tongue not under., flood by thegenerality ofthe People ? But I mull flop. 2. Andas toUniverfality I havebefore proved) i . That by their- 6wri Coiifellion moll of the. Churches and Bi- fhops ofthe World have been againfl them. 2. That at this daytheyare not above the third part of Chrifli- ans. 'roo fmall Univerfal Church for any man of Charity and Confideration to be a member of: A Sect that" all theMfelves All the Church. 'acob., r T7itr. Hiflor. Orient Cap. 77. tells us that, the Churches in the Eafferly part ofAfia alone exceeded in multitude both the Greek and Latine Churches. As for their telling us that all thefe followed DiOPOrfiS a Heretick, or were Neflorians, and that all the A&if- fines, Arnieniansi Georgians, Syrians, Copies, Greeks, Protefiatts, d-c. are Hereticks, or Schifmaticks, I have anfwered it fo oft at large that I mull not repeat what I have faid. Only, i. I fay that if the Cenfures and Re- vilingls of Adverfaries,can un-chriflen all others, and 'ap- propriate the Church tofiern that have leaft Charity, perhaps theQuakersimatihortly have as fair a Title as the Papifts. If General ,councils be not tobe believed when theyliéreticatLIPOpe0 lli flot believe a Railer When heHereticateli inbill,áftheChriftian. World, Whom believer it oiifpAekivatth.? Siitertligladtqu 'dohperfohs unheard.

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