Baxter - BX1763 B28

(73 ) hundred years, that every Church ufed what the Bithop pleated ? Yea, that the firi reftraint of free praying that we find was, by a Council ordaining that thePres- byter íhould firft Phew his Prayer to the Fathers that they might befure it was found ? And hadBafil andchryfoftome, and all others that varyed, as divers Religions as Litur- gies? 2. Whether all the doc`irinal Controverfies among your felves, as between all your School Doctors about Predeftination, Grace, and free will, about Perfeverance, about the ImmaculateConception of the Virgin Mary, about the Power of the Pope over all Kings in Tempo- rals, and about the killingofexcommunicate Kings, and the abfolving their Subjects, and whether after excom- munication they are Kings or no, (ofwhich Hen. Forvlis háth cited great ftore on one .fide,) and all theMoral Controverfies about loving God, about Perjuries, Vows, Murder, Fornication, Lying, Stealing, Drunkennefs, Gluttony, (ofwhich you may fee great ftore in Montal- tw's Letters, The Myftery ofJefuitifine, and Mr. Clark- fons late Book called The Praitical Divinity ofthe church of Rome: ). I íäy, is not Religion as much concerned about all there differences, and all the reft among you which make many Horfe-loads, yea I think Cart-loads ofVolumes, asit is in the colourof thePreachers Cloaths, or the Meat he eateth ? And are not Proteftants ( that is, meer chrifinns difowning Popery) as juftifiable in their Unity andCharity, for taking Men to be of thefameRe- ligion, who Life not the fame Garments, Gefkures, and Ceremonies, and that bear with differences herein, as your Church that beareth, with all there loads ofdifferent Dotrines in your molt Learned Famous Do&ors ( and not in the weaker Prielfs alone) even whether excom- municate

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