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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
The Twelve Arguments said to be Dr. Owens, impartially considered.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
22. Being thus hindered and delayed, the King's Declaration after giving them liberty to have Assemblies otherwise, they were then kept from the Parish-Churches by their labours with their own •locks, as the Parish-Ministers be from hearing one another.
23. Some in the City, and more in the Countries, all this while went constantly to the Parish Churches before this liberty, and as oft as they could after, lest they should by their practice, draw the people to th•nk that they took it for unlawful.
24▪ Others that thought it lawful, judg it not necessary when they might do that which they judged better: And finding many Hearers offended at it, were loath to displease them, and bear their censures; till at last, by long disuse, the people thought their judgment was against it: And when necessity driveth them to declare their judgments, and change their practice, their Hearers (and their Adversaries) call them unconscionable Temporizers.