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A Defense of the Principles of Love

Published: 1671
Length: 73,158 words
Reading: ~5 hours
Divisions: 64

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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...

London Printed for Nevil Simmons ... 1671.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

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Table of contentsTHE CONTENTS OF THE FIRST PART.
PostscriptA POSTSCRIPT.
PrefaceTHE PREFACE TO THOSE READERS Who are of the Excepters mind, and are offended at my Book called, THE CURE OF…
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Part 1I. THE GENERAL PART, OR INTRODUCTION.
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Chapter 2CAP. 2. The true state as the Controversie, between me, and those whom I call Church-Dividers.
Chapter 3CAP. 3. Some Objections (or Questions) about Separation answered.
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Exception 1EXCEPT. I.
Exception 1bEXCEPT. ib. Since the crying sin this day is not separation, but unjust and violent Persecution, (½) which…
Exception 2EXCEPT. II. Mr. B. mentioneth with much bitterness what was formerly done in the time of the War; which is…
Exception 2bEXCEPT. II. ib. There is daily much greater prophaneness, and the Consequent of prophaneness, Immorality,…
Exception 3EXCEPT. III. He alloweth himself a great and masterly liberty, to call his brethren fierce, self-conceited…
Exception 3bEXCEPT. Ib. He useth the same frothy and unsavoury words, that others prophane Prayer and the name of God…
Exception 4EXCEPT. IV. p. 2. He doth very often and needlesly insist on many things that may tend to advance his own…
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DocumentTo the Elders and Ministers of every Town within the Jurisdiction of the Massachusets in New-England:

A Defense of the Principles of Love

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