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A27066	Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1682 (1682)	Wing B1449; ESTC R1229	17,088	43

Worship out of the Church and the World 7. This opinion will bring in all confusion instead of pure reasonable Worship while every man is left to find that in Scripture which never was there and that as the onely rule of his actions one will think that he finds one thing there and another another thing for it must be reality and verity which must be the term of Unity men cannot agree in that which is not 8. It will let in Impiety and Errour for when men are sent to seek and find that which is not there every man will think that he findeth that which his own corrupted mind brings thither 9. And hereby all possibility of Union among Christians and Churches must perish till this errour perish for if we must unite onely in that which is not in being we must not unite at all 10. Hereby is laid a Snare to tempt men into odious censures of each other of which see my Author excellently at large 11. Hereby Christian love will be quenched when every man must account his Brother an Idolater that cannot shew a Scripture for the hour the place of Worship c. 12. And hereby back-biting slandering and railing must go currant as no sin while every Calvin Cartwright Hildersham Perkins Sibbs c. that used a Form of Prayer yea all the Christians in the World must be accused of Idolatry as if it were a true and righteous charge And 13. All our sins will be fathered on God as if the second Commandment and the Scripture-perfection required all this and taught Children to disobey their Parents and Masters and say your Prayers and Catechisms are Images and Idols c. 14. It will rack and perplex the Consciences of all Christians when I must take my self for an Idolater till I can find a particular Law in Scripture for every Tune Metre Translation Method Vesture Gesture c. that I use in the worshipping of God when Conscience must build onely in the Air and rest only on a word which never was 15. It will have a confounding influence into all the affairs and business of our lives Lastly It will fright poor people from Scripture and Religion and make Us our Doctrine and Worship ridiculous in the sight of all the World These are the consequences which Mr. Baxter shews very well at large of that impracticable and erroneous doctrine of demanding a particular Text of Scripture for the Ceremonies and Circumstances of Gods worship 17. The Church of England not guilty of any kind of False-worship Defence of the Principles of Love Part 2. p. 3 4. Mr. Baxter having recited the seven several kinds of false Worship acquits the Church of England from all and proves at large in the Pages here cited that it is not guilty of false Worship in any kind or any acceptation whatsoever any more than Mr. Bagshaw whom he there speaks particularly to or the rest of the Non-conformists are in their extemporate Prayers 18. A general Vindication of the Liturgy and Ceremonies Defence of the Principles of Love Part 1.90 91. To do it i.e. to use as he calls it an unreformed Liturgy out of choice is one thing to do it as a duty put upon us by Gods providence and our Governours when we can do no better is another thing it is God that hath pulled down our liberty and opportunity to serve him better and we must obey him It is no faulty mutability to change our practice when God by changing our condition doth change our duty no more than it was in Augustine who professeth that he would worship God as to Forms and Ceremonies according as the Church did with which he joined where-ever he came 19. The soundness of the Doctrine of the Church of England Defence of the Principles of Love Part 2. p. 3. The Doctrine of the Church of England is so sound that the Independents and Presbyterians have still offered to subscribe to it in the 39. Articles Thus hath Mr. Baxter copiously vindicated the Church of England in almost every point of Conformity which is any thing material which shews that Non-conformists themselves do not really believe what they have suggested to and imposed upon the belief of their Followers concerning the sinfulness of Conformity And that what they except against in Conformity is not upon the account of its Sinfulness but Inexpediency onely which neither the Law of God Nature nor Nations did ever allow the People to be Judges of but the Rulers onely and therefore ought in point of Christianity and right Religion to be submitted to for the sake of those great Christian duties Peace Unity and Obedience to Magistrates for the conviction of our religious Enemies for the good and prosperity of the Church for the safety honour and welfare of the King and three Kingdoms for the credit of Christianity and for the glory of God to whom be glory for ever and ever FINIS Pag. 18. Part 1. pag. 49. Par. 1. pag. 36. Part. 1. pag. 56. The publick to be preferred before the private and come to the beginning of Common-Prayer Part. 2. p. 176. Common-prayer preferred before all private duties part 1. p. 97. The heinousness of Separation in consideration of those excellent persons that they separated from 1. the old Conformists 2. the present Conformists Part. 1. p. 12.13 Part. 1. p. 10 11 12. Part. 1. p. 40. Mr. Baxter dares not go against his Conscience in not taking the Sacrament at his Parish Church Part. 1. p. 16 68 69. The Separatists that are so scrupulous about Church communion make no conscience of greater sins Part 1. p. 84. The evil of ●eparation Part 1. p. 2 3. Mr. Baxter ●ounts Sepa●●tists no bet●er than foo●●sh and be●itched ●abes carnal ●nd not spiri 〈…〉 al. Part. 2 p. 155. Separation and Koraism provoking sins Here he speaks particularly to Mr. Bagshaw Part 2. p. 6 7. Part 1. p. 60. The sad effects of Church-divisions Part 2. p. 175. Part 1. p 17. The present separation a promoting cause of Popery and greatly hazards the Protestant Religion advantageth profaneness c. Part 1. p. 32. Part 1. p. 52. The manner how Popery will grow out of our divisions The present Separation promoteth Anabaptistry Quakerism c. Mr. Baxters addition to this History Part 2. p. 175 Part 1. p. 50. Part 1. p. 49. Part 1. p. 54. Part 2. p. 150. * Yet this is that some of the Non-conformists have called one of the hardest points in Conformity The third Edition * Diocesan Episcopacy