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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.
2. That they are false Worship, and Idolatry.
3. That the places where they are used, are Idol-Temples.
4. That to join there in them, is to partake in Idolatry.
4. That to joyn there in them, is to partake in Idolatry.
5. The proof of all this is by this Argument; Worship not institute, is not lawful; but kneeling in receipt of Bread and Wine, is Worship not instituted by Christ: therefore not lawful; therefore ⟨p. 2⟩not pleasing, p. 160, 161. To which, by way of Motive, he addeth, p. 275. How many once in the separation, are returned back to the Vomit they once cast up, and wallow in the mire of a worldly worship? &c. Is compliance in Idol-Temples, going to Dan and Bethel, bowing to Baal, sitting, or drinking with the superstitious in acts of religious adoration, a witness for, or against defection? Are you turned as silly sheep (that once were called shepherds), to bleat after other shepherds, that Christ never sent, nor bid you go after them, &c. Looks it not like a declining of the Camp of Christ, the work of the Gospel, and setting your face towards Babel, &c.? Is scandal of no weight with you, &c.? How dare you venture your souls to sit under Means that he says shall not profit you; and which is worse, lies under his curse?