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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.
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.
5. If any renounce Communion with faulty Bishops, or Worship, or Discipline, simply and absolutely, and not only secundum quid, and so forsake the good that is in them for the sake of the evil. In a word, 1. All that Separate for a wrong cause. 2. Or further than they Separate from Christ, or than Christ would have them separate, do sin.
2. But they that renounce any corruption, as such, and the Church no further than secundum quid, as it is faulty, do well: For we must so renounce the faults of all Churches and Christians in the World, (and our own first.) But not the Churches and Christians for any tolerable faults, so we commit no Sin our selves, which they impose as the condition of their Communion.