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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.
17. By Canon fifteenth when twenty or thirty thousand are commanded to come to a Church that cannot receive six thousand, and the Alleys and Pews are wedged so that they cannot all kneel, yet all that kneel not at the Prayers, and all that say not audibly the Confession, Lords Prayer, Creed and Responses, disobey the Laws of the Church, and so far separate from it.
17. By Canon fifteenth when twenty or thirty thousand are commanded to come to a Church that cannot receive six thousand, and the Alleys and Pewes are wedg'd so that they cannot all kneel, yet all that kneel not at the Prayers, and all that say not audibly the Confession, Lords Prayer, Creed and Responses, disobey the Laws of the Church, and so far separate from it.
18. When twenty thousand Persons are commanded to come in more than can, if ten thousand of them (or any number) should come to the Church-yard or Porch, to show that they are not presentable, but would get in if they could, the nineteenth Canon commands to drive them away.
18. When twenty thousand Persons are commanded to come in more than can, if ten thousand of them (or any number) should come to the Church-yard or Porch, to shew that they are not presentable, but would get in if they could, the nineteenth Canon commands to drive them away.
19. The Liturgy and Canon 22. &c. bind all under the penalty of the Law to receive the Sacrament thrice every year: If a secret Infidel, Sadducee, Hobbist, Socinian, or any Heretic say, I am not able to change my Judgment, which is inconsistent with the Sacrament, or if one whose Conscience tells him of the guilt of Adultery, and that he is not resolved to confess and forsake it yet; or one that by Melancholy causelessly feareth unworthy receiving to damnation; I say, if any of these will avoid the charge of