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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt:... HUMAN DISCRETION."--Proof. 1. Mr. John Tomres, who, though a Baptist, remained a member of the Ch. of England, and was Ro even after the Restoration of Charles II.; objected to separation for differences "even on clear truths," if not "fundamental," Wall, p. 554; Crosby I. 285--294. 2. Mr. Henry Jessey, 1645, received the unbaptized to full membership, Crosby I. 812; and said "there is a command' to do so; Bunyan's Works, II. p. 642, col. 2; 643, col. 1; 645, col. 2. 8. Mr. John Bunyan, 1672, did so too, and said that "we are strictly commanded to hold cmn. with" them; also that "the L's. Spr. is for the ch., as a ch.:" Works, II. p. 610, col. 1; 630, col. 1. 4. Dr. James Foster was in doctrine a Socinian; and held that Arians, Socinians, Calvinists, &o., baptized and unbaptized, "ought to unite in Christian fellowship:" Brine, pp. 100, 101; Robinson's Works, III. 145. 5. Mr. Hort. Rorinson continued after he became a Socinian, pastor of the mixed cmn. ch. at Cambridge: Ivimey IV. 52, 456, 457. He received to full membership all who "held inviolably the perfection of Scripture:" Ivimey, IV. p. 52. In his treatise on " Toleration," 1781, speaking of the "express laws of ch. fellowship" given by God, he said that the L's. Spr. is a "ch. duty," and that "a supreme love to truth and virtue," is "all-sufficient for the duties...of ch. cmn.;" Works III. 162,181,177. He names Jessey, Bunyan, Foster, Bulkley, Turner, Ryland, and Brown, as chief advocates of free cmn., before that time; pp. 142--145. 6. Mr. J. Ryland and Mr. D. Turner pleaded Rom. xiv. 1, 3, &c. as commanding freecmn.; and Mr. Booth spoke of them as pleading for and practi...