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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.
Do you think, that when Calvin formed the Liturgy for Geneva and France, he had so Malignant a Design, as to defeat the Spirits help? Or do our English Psalms and Tunes quench the Spirit? and are they used to keep Men from the Gift of making Hymns Ex tempore?
2 I answered your Minor first, because it is matter of Fact; but your Major also is untrue: For that which is imposed with an ill Intent, may be used to a good one: And that which hurteth some, may be a help to others. If the Parish Churches were all built to serve Popery and the Mass, ⟨p. 20⟩and dedicated to Saints, yet we may use them lawfully to better Purposes. If Priests Marriages be forbidden for ill Ends, it may be forborne for good Ends. If Glebe and Tithes were here given first to maintain the Mass, they may be used to maintain sound Teachers. It was Popes that reversed the old Custom of not adoring, kneeling on any Lords day: And yet you may lawfully kneel then in Prayer: Yea, tho they brought in kneeling to the Host by that Alteration.1 So that this is another Error. And your Confirmations are not true.
2 I answered your Minor first, because it is matter of Fact; but your Major also is untrue: For that which is imposed with an ill Intent, may be used to a good one: And that which hurteth some, may be a help to others. If the Parish Churches were all built to serve Popery and the Mass, ⟨p. 20⟩and dedicated to Saints, yet we may use them lawfully to better Purposes. If Priests Marriages be forbidden for ill Ends, it may be forborn for good Ends. If Glebe and Tythes were here given first to maintain the Mass, they may be used to maintain sound Teachers. It was Popes that reverst the old Custom of not adoring, kneeling on any Lords day: And yet you may lawfully kneel then in Prayer: Yea, tho they brought in kneeling to the Host by that Alteration.