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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. That which is easiest, needeth the least help: It is to me so much easier to speak my own thoughts in Prayer ex tempore, than to remember a form of words; that never since I was twenty years old, did I ever learn and say without Book, the words of one Prayer, or one Sermon, since I Preached; to have learnt a Prayer or Sermon without Book, would have cost me ten times and more, both time and labour, and fear of being out, than I ever used or could afford.
2. That which is easiest, needeth the least help: It is to me so much easier to speak my own thoughts in Prayer ex tempore, than to remember a form of words; that never since I was twenty years old, did I ever learn and say without Book, the words of one Prayer, or one Sermon, since I Preacht; to have learnt a Prayer or Sermon without Book, would have cost me ten times and more, both time and labour, and fear of being out, than I ever used or could afford.
3. Pardon me for asking, Whether if this Author put all the Errors of this his writing into a Prayer or Sermon, he did not need more ⟨p. 21⟩help of the Spirit, to have avoided them, and to have spoken nothing but truth, than to have fluently uttered so many mistakes? He hath heard those called Arminians on one side, and Antinomians on the other, oft fluently express their Opinions in Gods Worship: The former he took to be heinous Errors: Had not all these had more of the help of Gods Spirit, if they had uttered nothing but true and good in a form, than they had to speak so much Error and Evil to God or Man, with extemporate fluency.
3. Pardon me for asking, Whether if this Author put all the Errors of this his writing into a Prayer or Sermon, he did not need more ⟨p. 21⟩help of the Spirit, to have avoided them, and to have spoken nothing but truth, than to have fluently uttered so many mistakes? He hath heard those called Arminians on one side, and Antinmians on the other, oft fluently express their Opinions in Gods Worship: The former he took to be heinous Errors: Had not all these had more of the help of Gods Spirit, if they had uttered nothing but true and good in a form, than they had to speak so much Error and Evil to God or Man, with extemporate fluency.