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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.
2. It is most direful to your own separating followers, who by this are supposed to profess all your Worship to be [wholly agreeable to Gods Mind and Will]. And so the honest well-meaning people are made guilty of all the Errors which you put into your Worship.
3. It is contrary to your own former Profession, That you could in charity communicate with Presbyterians, or Anabaptists, &c. And so you approved of all the Errors of their Worship.
4. It maketh it a down right Sin, to communicate with any Church on Earth: For all have their faults and errors, even in Worship; which you feign all that Communicate with them to justify, as [wholly agreeable to Gods Will]. And to justify Sin, and teach men so to do, and to father it on God, are sad Aggravations; such shall be called least in the Kingdom of God. By this rule you would have separated from every Church on Earth, that we have notice of for a thousand years, yea, and to this day; and is not that near separating from Christ? And when no man knoweth before you speak in prayer, what you will say, How shall any man that joineth with you, know but he may be guilty of your Sin at the next Sentence.
4. It maketh it a down right Sin, to communicate with any Church on Earth: For all have their faults and errors, even in Worship; which you feign all that Communicate with them to justifie, as [wholly agreeable to Gods Will]. And to justifie Sin, and teach men so to do, and to father it on God, are sad Aggravations; such shall be called least in the Kingdom of God. By this rule you would have separated from every Church on Earth, that we have notice of for a thousand years, yea, and to this day; and is not that near separating from Christ? And when no man knoweth before you speak in prayer, what you will say, How shall any man that joyneth with you, koow but he may be guilty of your Sin at the next Sentence.