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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.
§. 8. Our Answer you well recite, if you add, that (call it substantial, or what you will) the common Lords-day Worship according to the Liturgy, hath not many, if any words in it, whose signified Matter is not found and true; and as to the Manner, Extemporate Prayer hath oft as great unaptness of words (which every Age changeth) disorder and defectiveness.
§. 8. OUr Answer you well recite, if you add, that (call it substantial, or what you will) the common Lords-day Worship according to the Liturgy, hath not many, if any words in it, whose signified Matter is not found and true; and as to the Manner, Extemporate Prayer hath oft as great unaptness of words (which every Age changeth) disorder and defectiveness.
As to your Reply, it is the strangest that ever I read from so Learned ⟨p. 14⟩a Man, and is a great mistake: What is there in the world, that is a Subject,1 without any Accidentals? Gods Worship hath a multitude of Accidents; As the Hour, the Place, the Pulpit, the Tables, the Cups of Silver, the Linen and other Ornaments; the Books as Printed, the Metre, the Tunes, the Chapters and Verses, the words of Translation, the Building, the Gestures, Vestures, Treasures, &c.
As to your Reply, it is the strangest that ever I read from so Learned ⟨p. 14⟩a Man, and is a great mistake: What is there in the world, that is a Subject,1 without any Accidentals? Gods Worship hath a multitude of Accidents; As the Hour, the Place, the Pulpet, the Tables, the Cups of Silver, the Linen and other Ornaments; the Books as Printed, the Metre, the Tunes, the Chapters and Verses, the words of Translation, the Building, the Gestures, Vestures, Treasures, &c.