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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.
18. Another Instance may be of Speaking in the Assembly, whether it shall be One Minister, or Two, or Three. Whether Laymen may not be Interlocutors by Questions, yea, and sometime Preach and Pray, &c. God hath not particularly determined, but left to Human Choice.
19. Many good Christians knowing the Lord's Day to be an Instituted Day of Thanksgiving for the greatest Mercies, do as an Act of Honour wear their best Clothes, and Feast themselves and the Poor accordingly that day: This is Lawful, by the General Law; but not particularly Instituted by God.
19. Many good Christians knowing the Lord's Day to be an Instituted Day of Thanksgiving for the greatest Mercies, do as an Act of Honour wear their best Cloathes, and Feast themselves and the Poor accordingly that day: This is Lawful, by the General Law; but not particularly Instituted by God.
20. Professing Signs in our Covenantings with God, and Confessing of our Religion, are left to be chosen only by the General Laws of Edification, and Order. When a Nation, or Church, or Person renew their Covenant with God, and their Confession of Faith, it may be done (when the Ruler demandeth their consent) either by word, or by subscribing ▪ or by lifting up the hand, or by standing up, or by bowing the Head; for these are all, or most found in Scripture instances; yea, sometimes they fell by Prostration to the Ground: yea, and so they oft did in receiving a Charge or Message from God, by his Ministers.
20. Professing Signs in our Covenantings with God, and Confessing of our Religion, are left to be chosen onely by the General Laws of Edification, and Order. When a Nation, or Church, or Person renew their Covenant with God, and their Confession of Faith, it may be done (when the Ruler demandeth their consent) either by word, or by subscribing or by lifting up the hand, or by standing up, or by bowing the Head; for these are all, or most found in Scripture instances; yea, sometimes they fell by Prostration to the Ground: yea, and so they oft did in receiving a Charge or Message from God, by his Ministers.