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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.
12. Argument, That which deprives us of the principal Plea for the Justification of our Separation from the Church of England, in i•s present state, ought not justly to be received or admitted. But this is certainly done by a Supposition of the lawfulness of this Worship, and a practice suitable thereunto, as is known to all, who are exercised in this Cause. Many other heads of Arguments might be added to the same purpose, if there were occasion.
12. Argument, That which deprives us of the principal Plea for the Iustification of our Separation from the Church of England, in i•s present state, ought not justly to be received or admitted. But this is certainly done by a Supposition of the lawfulness of this Worship, and a practice suitable thereunto, as is known to all, who are exercised in this Cause. Many other heads of Arguments might be added to the same purpose, if there were occasion.
§ 28. TO your 12th. Argument, I answer, 1. That which discovereth the unsoundness of any ones Plea for Separation, is to be received. There are several Cases, in which Separation from the Church of England is sinful. As 1. If any separate as the Papists do, because they are against sound Doctrine, or any good that is in the Church.