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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.
To the Minor, 1. And such is all your Errors, and all the Disorder, ill Reflections, slovenly Expressions which any weak Minister useth, and the faults that all men have in some degree.
D. O.
1. It puts an utter stop to the progress of Reformation in this Nation, fixing bounds unto it that it could never pass. 2. It hath kept multitudes in ignorance, &c. 3. It hath countenanced and encouraged many in reviling and reproaching the holy Spirit, and his Work. 4. It hath set up and warranted an ungifted Ministry. 5. It hath made great desolations in the Church: 1. In the silencing of painful Ministers. 2. In the ruin of Families innumerable. 3. In the destruction of souls. It is not lawful to be participant in these things; yea, the glory of our profession lies in our testimony against them.
§ 22. TO your Reasons: 1. It's not the use of a Liturgy that hinders Reformation, but the abuse of it, and forbidding other ways of duty.