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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.
His Major is, [Worship not instituted, is not lawful]. Ans. 1. The word [Worship] in general, signifieth, 1. Any thing done in honour to another; and so all our obedience to God is Worship: It is to his glory that we must do all. I suppose that this he meaneth not. 2. Any immediate act or expression of the honour and reverence of the heart. If this be not it that he meaneth by Worship, I know not what he meaneth.
This Worship, as within, is the secret act of the soul; as expressed, it is the act of the body.
This Worship, as within, is the secret act of the soul; as exprest, it is the act of the body.
Of such Worship there are two sorts: One sort is made necessary, statedly, by God's commanding it in particular. To this no man must add the like, or from it diminish any thing so commanded, either pretending God's authority, or his own. The other sort is but the subordinate ordering of the former, and is but the manner of doing it. This God doth not institute in particular, but only give man a general Rule, how to choose it himself; which is, That all be done in love, and to edification, decently and in order.