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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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Argument 7. That practice whereby we condemn the suffering Saints of the present Age, rendering them false Witnesses of God, and the only blamable cause of their own sufferings, is not to be approved: But such is this practice: And where this is done on a pretence of liberty, without any plea of necessary duty on our part, it is utterly unlawful.
§ 23. TO your Seventh Argument: The Major meaneth, either Saints that suffer for well-doing, or for ill-doing. If the Anabaptists should be suffering-Saints, I would be none of those that they suffer by: But yet I would not be for Anabaptistry, for fear of condemning them as the cause of their own suffering: By that Rule I must own every error or sin that any Saint suffereth for.
2. The Truth bids me say more than I am willing, to confute this Error. I have heard Army-Officers say, That they believed abundance of the Ten Thousand Scots, killed at Dunbar, were godly men: And yet you were one that publicly, in Pulpit and Print, accused them, and did not justify their cause for being Saints. Do you think none of the Ministers in England were Saints, that refused the Engagement, and were sequestered for that, and not keeping Fasts and Thanksgivings for Blood? Are you sure that Christopher Love (beheaded), was no Saint? Or did you therefore own their Causes?
2. The Truth bids me say more than I am willing, to confute this Error. I have heard Army-Officers say, That they believed abundance of the Ten Thousand Scots, killed at Dunbar, were godly men: And yet you were one that publickly, in Pulpit and Print, accused them, and did not justifie their cause for being Saints. Do you think none of the Ministers in England were Saints, that refused the Engagement, and were sequestred for that, and not keeping Fasts and Thanksgivings for Blood? Are you sure that Christopher Love (beheaded), was no Saint? Or did you therefore own their Causes?