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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.
XCII. Qu. But is not the Inference true?
Ans. No, it's false: There are twenty cases in which 1. One may be guilty of Schism and not be a Schismatic, as denominated from what predominateth: 2. And as many in which he is not at all guilty that communicateth with the guilty.
Ans. No, it's false: There are twenty cases in which 1. One may be guilty of Schism and not be a Schismatick, as denominated from what predominateth: 2. And as many in which he is not at all guilty that communicateth with the guilty.
And let the world (that is sober and awake) judge now whether these men or we be the greater Schismatics, and which more condemneth or separateth from the Church of England. We say that all Churches have some degree of Schism, and so hath the Church of England, as it hath imperfection, Error and Sin; but that it is not therefore no Church, nor is it unlawful to communicate with it; All Christians and Churches must not be separated from that are guilty of some degree of Schism.
And let the world (that is sober and awake) judge now whether these men or we be the greater Schismaticks, and which more condemneth or separateth from the Church of England. We say that all Churches have some degree of Schism, and so hath the Church of England, as it hath imperfection, Errour and Sin; but that it is not therefore no Church, nor is it unlawful to communicate with it; All Christians and Churches must not be separated from that are guilty of some degree of Schism.