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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.
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Nor yet the act of the Commander, and of the People. If Rulers should command Preaching, Prayer, &c. to exclude the singing Psalms, that is their Sin, and not the Peoples, who must not (like peevish Children at meat) refuse all, because they cannot have what they would.
D. O.
The pretence of mens liberty to use their Gifts in Prayer before Sermons, and in Preaching, is ridiculous; they are excluded in all the solemn Worship of the Church.
§ 20. This answer is not only a mistake, but of an ill aspect on your selves.1 It's not true, That the use of Gifts [is excluded in all the solemn Worship of the Church]. As if Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving, Confession, Explication of the Scripture, Reproof, Exhortation, Comfort, Direction, Benediction, were no part of the solemn Worship of the Church. Indeed some Superconformists have said so, but I had hoped you would not.