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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.
But you say, they are natural and occasional. Ans. Dark words! 1. I think the Translations, Metre, Tunes, Notes, your Words and Method, Table, Cups, Cloth, Temples, &c. are rather Artificial than Natural; Art and not Nature made them what they are. If you mean that Nature commandeth them, then God by the Law of Nature commandeth them: and what greater Authority can they have? But yet that is not so, Nature doth not determine us to this or that, but leave all to apt and prudent Choice. And so he doth as to the form or words of Prayer.
If by [Occasional] you mean such as must be mutably fitted to just Occasions; there is no doubt of it: And while the Occasion is constant, so may the Accidents. But sure while they are such; yea, and relatively appropriated or separated to worship (as Buildings, Utensils, and Maintenance may be) they belong to that Worship which they are no parts of
D. O.
2. Prayers and Praises absolutely considered, are not an institution of Christ; they are a part of Natural Worship common unto all Mankind: His institution respects only the internal form of them, and the manner of their performance; but this is that which the Liturgy takes on it self, namely, to supply and determine the matter, to prescribe the manner, and to limit all the concerns of them to Modes and Forms of its own, which is to take the work of Christ out of his hand.