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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.
§ 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.
2. If any renounce Communion with all the Parish Churches under the name of the Church of England.
3. If any renounce Communion with the Church of England, as it is a Christian Kingdom, headed by one Christian Protestant King?
4. If they renounce Communion with the Church of England, as it is called one from the Association or Concord of its Pastors, or Church Governors.
4. If they renounce Communion with the Church of England, as it is called one from the Association or Concord of its Pastors, or Church Governours.