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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.
But this is too far off: In Dunstans West, where Dr. Sherlock Preacheth, when I was licensed twenty years ago, at Christmas, as I was Preaching, some Lime or Stone fell down in the Steeple with the crowd, the Church being old and under suspicion, they all thought it was falling, and most ran out in tumult, and some cast themselves headlong from the Gallery for hast; when they were quieted and came in again, the Boys in the Chancel broke a Wainscot Screen with climbing on it, and the noise made them run out again; one old woman going out, cried, It's just with God because I took not the first warning, Lord forgive me, and I'll never come again: Query, Whether these, or at least this resolving Woman was a Schismatic, and separated from the Catholic Church?
But this is too far off: In Dunstans West, where Dr. Sherlock Preacheth, when I was licensed twenty years ago, at Christmas, as I was Preaching, some Lime or Stone fell down in the Steeple with the crowd, the Church being old and under suspicion, they all thought it was falling, and most ran out in tumult, and some cast themselves headlong from the Gallery for hast; when they were quieted and came in again, the Boyes in the Chancel broke a Wainscot Skreen with climbing on it, and the noise made them run out again; one old woman going out, cryed, It's just with God because I took not the first warning, Lord forgive me, and I'le never come again: Quere, Whether these, or at least this resolving Woman was a Schismatick, and separated from the Catholick Church?
If not, there is some separation that is not so bad as Murder; and methinks the Doctor should forgive it for the success; for the Parish hereupon resolved to pull down the Church and build it new, a far better Fabric where the Dr. now Preacheth; and it drove me away that I preached there no more; Whether this new Church built where the old one had possession before, be not a Schismatical Separatist, I leave to him.
If not, there is some separation that is not so bad as Murder; and methinks the Doctor should forgive it for the success; for the Parish hereupon resolved to pull down the Church and build it new, a far better Fabrick where the Dr. now Preacheth; and it drove me away that I preacht there no more; Whether this new Church built where the old one had possession before, be not a Schismatical Separatist, I leave to him.