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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.
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.
He that will say that there is any such Law, must show that Law, and prove his Affirmative: But let him take heed of adding to God's Law: A false Prophet that fathered a false Message from God, was an heinous sinner. Is it not worse falsely to father a Law on him?
He that will say that there is any such Law, must shew that Law, and prove his Affirmative: But let him take heed of adding to God's Law: A false Prophet that fathered a false Message from God, was an heinous sinner. Is it not worse falsly to father a Law on him?
Perhaps they will say, that God forbids adding or diminishing: I answer, He doth so: Therefore let them take heed of it, who say his Law forbids that which it never forbade, but in general commandeth. If we must not add to the Laws of the Land, yet the Bookbinder that covereth them, and the Lawyers and Judges that expound them, do not add thereby to the Law. When the Hearers bowed, and prostrated themselves in reverence to God, they did not by this add to the Law; nor yet when they made a Vow uncommanded, or a Free-Will Offering: And I think it was no sinful addition to the Law, for the Publican to smite his Breast, and look downward; and when Jeremiah said, No man smiteth on his thigh, and saith, what evil have I done? The meaning is not, No man idolatrously giveth God false worship. And I think, that they that rent their clothes to express their repentance, did not add to God's Word, nor yet do it as necessary worship, tho Joel says, Rent your hearts, and not your garments.