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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.
It is also a Mistake, that [on the Authority of Men alone, doth their Imposition on the Practice of the Church depend]. For, 1. The foresaid parts are imposed by God himself. 2. The Lawful Modes imposed by Men, depend not on their Authority alone, 1but on Gods, who Authorizeth Rulers to do it: For he hath said, Let all be done to Edification, in Order; Obey them that have the Rule. They that obey a Pastor for Time, Place, Utensils, Translations, Psalms, &c. or that obey the King, depend not herein on Man alone.
- 1XXXII. Error.
Your Conclusion also is a Mistake.1 This is not to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church, no more than you did, when you wrote your Savoy-Articles of Confession, or ⟨p. 32⟩when you draw up the Form of a Church-Covenant for your Flock. All that is a Sin against Christs Kingly Office, is not a renouncing of it.
- 1XXXIII. Error.
D. O.