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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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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.
2. The same I say of keeping men in ignorance: Use all other means, and the Liturgy with it, and it will keep none in ignorance. Some Helvetia Ministers who endeavoured to have practised my Reformed Pastor, in personal conference, told me, That there the common people go customarily, almost every day in the week, to a Sermon, without Ceremonies or Liturgies (usually) with a Bible in their hands, and continue as ignorant as those here that have no preaching.