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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.
6. It is no friendly act to the Church, to lay down such a Principle of perpetual Separation, and condemning each others Communion, and so to make the Communion and Concord of the Churches impossible.
7. It is Self-condemnation to judg the present Bishops Church-Tyrants, for excommunicating good Christians according to the Canons, for profest dissent about their governing Offices, Liturgies, and Ceremonies; and for imposing Assent and Consent to all things, &c. and yet to go much further than they, by making it Sin against God, to Communicate where the Worship is not [wholly agreeable to Gods Will]. Prove that ever the Bishops went so far from Concord.
8. I only humbly ask, Whether this make not Christ, and all his Apostles Hypocrites, and worse than profest Sinners: Did Christ by his usual joining in the Synagogue and Temple-Worship, and commanding men to go to the Priests, to hear the Scribes and Pharisees, &c. profess that he took their Worship to be wholly agreeable to Gods Will? Or did the Apostles so, while they long joined in the Synagogues with the Jews?
8. I only humbly ask, Whether this make not Christ, and all his Apostles Hypocrites, and worse than profest Sinners: Did Christ by his usual joyning in the Synagogue and Temple-Worship, and commanding men to go to the Priests, to hear the Scribes and Pharisees, &c. profess that he took their Worship to be wholly agreeable to Gods Will? Or did the Apostles so, while they long joyned in the Synagogues with the Iews?