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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.
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.
§ 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 excludeded 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.
- 1XXXVII. Error.
2. I said, It's of an ill aspect. For 1. If Preaching and Pulpit-Prayer before and after, be none of the solemn Worship of the Churches, then all those Churches which seldom use any other, (saving a Psalm, which is a Liturgic form) have no solemn Worship at all. 2. But if it be otherwise, (as it is) then the Parish Churches so far excel most of you, that they have all that you have (Pulpit Prayer and Sermon, and sometimes a Chapter) and all the Common Prayer more. And is not that better than your nothing (except at Sacraments)? I know that the Nonconformists that I have conversed with, are in judgment for more, (for reading the Psalms, Chapters, Creed, Lords Prayer, Decalogue, &c.) But I have come into so few of their Churches that do any more than the common Pulpit work, (sing a Psalm, Pray and Preach there) that I have in that respect preferred the Churches that do all that, and add all the Liturgy besides, more than you use.