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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.
3. And when thousands are possest with a false Opinion, that the Nonconformists commonly are of these Opinions, and are to be hated and destroyed; our silence seeming to them to own them.
4. And when by 20 years forbearing public Communion, tho commanded and persecuted for it; our hearers are brought confidently to believe that we all this while took it for unlawful; and that if any now say otherwise, it is but cowardly backsliding.
4. And when by 20 years forbearing publick Communion, tho commanded and persecuted for it; our hearers are brought confidently to believe that we all this while took it for unlawful; and that if any now say otherwise, it is but cowardly backsliding.
5. It is when the Papists assaults of us, and of honest Conformists, as Trimmers, maketh it necessary to unite and encourage all honest men, That we fall not all into Roman snares, and not to bid all Christians forsake all such honest Parish-Ministers.