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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.
2. And if it be lawful to Communicate with us, it is unlawful to Communicate with the Non-conformists.
§ 2. One would think, this task should signify gross Schism in these men, as well as in other Sects, that say, We are the only true Church, and it's unlawful to Communicate with any but us: So did the Donatists, and most Sects of old; and every Sect usually that got uppermost by the Emperors countenance, called themselves the Catholic Church, and their Communion the Catholic and only lawful Communion: So did the Arians, and so did the Acacians, and Semi-arians; and so did the Nestorians a little while, and the Eutychians long; and so did the Monothelites, and the Phantasiasts, and the Image-adorers, and such like. And so do the Papists; and some say, That some Anabaptists have come to that; but I have not met with them.
§ 2. One would think, this task should signifie gross Schism in these men, as well as in other Sects, that say, We are the only true Church, and it's unlawful to Communicate with any but us: So did the Donatists, and most Sects of old; and every Sect usually that got uppermost by the Emperors countenance, called themselves the Catholick Church, and their Communion the Catholick and only lawful Communion: So did the Arians, and so did the Acacians, and Semi-arians; and so did the Nestorians a little while, and the Eutychians long; and so did the Monothelites, and the Phantasiasts, and the Image-adorers, and such like. And so do the Papists; and some say, That some Anabaptists have come to that; but I have not met with them.
§ 3. But though little Sects for this use some appearance of Scripture-reason (as the Anabaptists, that say, The unbaptized are no Church-Members: but you are all unbaptized, &c.) yet there are few big Sects, but worldly advantage, and cheating Words and Names, are the strength of their