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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.
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4. You make all other reserves of our own, to be allowed neither by God or good men. Here are two more mistakes. 1. God maketh it our great duty to hold Communion with most,1 or almost all Churches on Earth with such reserves; that is, to own them in all that is good, and disown all their evil, tho their Laws command the owning of them; without this reserve I would not join with yours, or any Church on Earth, that is, If my Communion were an owning of all their faultiness.
4. You make all other reserves of our own, to be allowed neither by God or good men. Here are two more mistakes. 1. God maketh it our great duty to hold Communion with most,1 or almost all Churches on Earth with such reserves; that is, to own them in all that is good, and disown all their evil, tho their Laws command the owning of them; without this reserve I would not joyn with yours, or any Church on Earth, that is, If my Communion were an owning of all their faultiness.
- 1X.XI. Error.
2. And it's an immodest Error to say, That none are good men, that in this are not of your mind. Is there any spotless Church on Earth? or must we renounce the Communion with them all, or reserve exception against their faults and misperformances?
D. O.