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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
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.
It's ordinary for Two Women fighting and scolding in the streets, to turn both their railing against him that would quiet them. And I expect the like.
The Cause that I write against, is this (Reader, understand it, or meddle not with what you understand not, 1. That God's Worship (saith D. O.) […]: That all that is in it, and belonging to it, and the manner o• it, is fal•e Worship, if it have not a Divine Institution in […]: That all Liturgies, as such, are such fal•e Worship (and not the English only) used to […] Christ's Pr•mi•e of Gifts, and God's Spirit.
The Cause that I write against, is this (Reader, understand it, or meddle not with what you understand not, 1. That God's Worship (saith D. O.) 〈…〉: That all that is in it, and belonging to it, and the manner o• it, is fal•e Worship, if it have not a Divine Institution in 〈…〉: That all Liturgies, as such, are such fal•e Worship (and not the English only) used to 〈…〉 Christ's Pr•mi•e of Gifts, and God's Spirit.
2. That this Worship is Idolatry (say some), or so false and unlawful, say the rest, That it is a denying of Christ's Fidelity, and it is a going to Idols Temples; or at least, unlawful to join in Communion with such as use it. And therefore they persuade all, as they will avoid Idolatry, or false Worship and sin, to avoid Communion with such Churches.