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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.
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.
3. The charge of [false Worship] unexplained, is meer 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.
4. His making all faulty circumstances, such as he nameth, to be Idolatry, because false, as he calls it, is yet more sinful, and of mischievous importance.
5. So is it to make the Churches Idols Temples, where they do kneel at the Sacrament, and use the Liturgy.
5. So is it to make the Churches Id•ls Temples, where they do kneel at the Sacrament, and use the Liturgy.