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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.
A. In this I know no Christian adversary to him: But it being the Universal Church that he giveth his proof of necessary Communion with, it's odd to say, We must have Communion with some Church or other: As if there were more than one Universal Church. 2. But we grant more, that all that can well, should be also members of some single Church.
A. In this I know no Christian adversary to him: But it being the Vniversal Church that he giveth his proof of necessary Communion with, it's odde to say, We must have Communion with some Church or other: As if there were more than one Universal Church. 2. But we grant more, that all that can well, should be also members of some single Church.
§. 2. P. 32. He saith [External and Actual Communion is an Essential duty of a Church-member (meaning a Christian.)]
A. 1. And yet before he denied that Communion lay essentially in this Exercise, but only in Union: Yea and Nay is his Custom. 2. Some few Christians (as those that live where such Communion cannot be had without sin, &c.) are not bound to it; therefore it is not true that it is Essential to Universal Church-membership. And I think sickness endeth not the essentials, that disableth men.
A. 1. And yet before he denyed that Communion lay essentially in this Exercise, but only in Vnion: Yea and Nay is his Custom. 2. Some few Christians (as those that live where such Communion cannot be had without sin, &c.) are not bound to it; therefore it is not true that it is Essential to Universal Church-membership. And I think sickness endeth not the essentials, that disableth men.