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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.
5. As to the Argument of Scandal; It is of dreadful weight to deter a tender Conscience (as from conforming to sin, so) from his groundless Separation, and war against Unity and Love.
6. That God saith such Means shall not profit; yea, curseth it, is a slander against God and Scripture, and all the Church on Earth that's known; by perverting and misapplying the Text.
I shall now better prove the lawfulness of using such things as these, than he hath proved it unlawful.
1. That which no Law of God, or valid Law of Man, forbids, is not unlawful: but the use of the things forementioned, no Law of God, or valid Law of Man forbids: Therefore the use of the things forementioned, is not unlawful.