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or the scandal and grief of that part or members of the Church, with which they actually congregate and communicate. It seems but agreable to the ancient usage of the Churches of Christ, in St. Cyprians, Tertullians, and Ireuaeus his time, that no publique transactions, much less impositions, touching Religion, should be made, without fairly aquainting the Clergy and Christian people too with the grounds and reasons of them, that Church-government, might not seem to be a tyranny, or an arbitrary and absolute domineering over the faith and consciences of Christs flock, |
or the scandal and grief of that part or members of the Church, with which they actually congregate and communicate. It seems but agreeable to the ancient usage of the Churches of christ, in Saint Cyprians, Tertullia's, and Ireuaeus his time, that no public transactions, much less impositions, touching Religion, should be made, without fairly aquainting the Clergy and Christian people too with the grounds and Reasons of them, that Church-government, might not seem to be a tyranny, or an arbitrary and absolute domineering over the faith and Consciences of Christ flock, |
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