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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. 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 ⟨p. 2⟩Cause, by which they do more than by any sober show of reason. The assumed names [of the Church, and Catholics, and Ancient] and the Names of Heretics, and Schismatics, and Lutherans, and Calvinists, and Novelists, falsely imposed on their Adversaries, next to the Sword and Flames, are the Engines of the Popish Sect, by which they defend their Separation from all other Christians in the World. And such use the gross Schismatical parts do make of the names of [The Church of England, and Catholic Communion] appropriated to themselves, and the names of Separatists and Schismatics imposed arbitrarily on others: Next to the Sword, this is their chief proof, That men are Separatists, if they will not separate from all save them, and such as they.
§ 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 ⟨p. 2⟩Cause, by which they do more than by any sober shew of reason. The assumed names [of the Church, and Catholicks, and Ancient] and the Names of Hereticks, and Schisma•icks, and Lutherans, and Calvinists, and Novelists, falsly imposed on their Adversaries, next to the Sword and Flames, are the Engines of the Popish Sect, by which they defend their Separation from all other Christians in the World. And such use the gross Schismatical parts do make of the names of [The Church of En•land, and Catholick Communion] appropriated to themselves, and the names of Seperatists and Schismaticks imposed arbitrarily on others: Next to the Sword, this is their chief proof, That men are Separatists, if they will not separate from all save them, and such as they.