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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.
53. Their Principles utterly unchurch the Church of Rome, 1. Especially because it is guilty of the greatest Schism on earth, by setting up a false Church form and head: 2. And because they Schismatically condemn and Unchurch three parts of the Church on earth, even all save their Sect: 3. And for their many other Schismatical Doctrines and Practices. 4. And as being condemned by the Greek Protestants and most Churches, and separated from by the Church of England which they own.
54. They separate in Principles from all or near all General Councils (save the first) as having separated from other Councils and condemned them, and being again condemned by them.
55. Some of them condemn and separate from all the Protestant Churches that have Bishops, in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Transylvania, &c. because they had not their Ordination Successively from Bishops but Presbyters at the Reformation: And because they have been guilty of Schism against others.