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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.
IV. Lastly, I will unveil these mens Doctrine of Separation, and then judg whether it be the Doctrine of Christ, which is a Law of Love, and Union, and Peace▪ or the Wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, &c.
1. •t is false, that all such Secondary Medal Worship, is unlawful, which is not instituted by a fixing Law.
2. It is deceit not to distinguish these different things.
3. The charge of [false Worship] unexplained, is mere deceit: 1. Worship is so far [false], as it is contrary to the Rule. Every Sermon, Prayer or Sacrament which we administer, hath faultiness and sin, and is so far [false Worship]. 2. But Worship offered God on pretence that he instituted it when he did not, or that Man hath authority to command the like, is yet worse false Worship. 3. And the worship of false Gods or Idols, is yet worse than that, and abhorred of God.