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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.
§ 7. Nor should I think it a Duty (in my condition), to save Readers from his real errors, were it not that they notoriously tend to persuade the Land to think of Thousands of the faithfullest Christians that I know, as damnable intolerable Schismatics, guilty of the sin that will damn them, as soon as Adultery and Murder; and consequently to call Men to hate them as such, and to proceed in silencing, ruining and imprisoning them; which is to tell all them that do so, that they do well; which if it should prove otherwise, who can express the greatness of his sin against the Souls of one party, and the Lives, Estate, and Ministry of the other?
§ 7. Nor should I think it a Duty (in my condition), to save Readers from his real errors, were it not that they notoriously tend to perswade the Land to think of Thousands of the faithfullest Christians that I know, as damnable intollerable Schismaticks, guilty of the sin that will damn them, as soon as Adultery and Murder; and consequently to call Men to hate them as such, and to proceed in silencing, ruining and imprisoning them; which is to tell all them that do so, that they do well; which if it should prove otherwise, who can express the greatness of his sin against the Souls of one party, and the Lives, Estate, and Ministry of the other?
§ 8. His scorn, p. 11, 12. for my purpose to have meddled with such Men in the Cause of Conformity no more, seems some invitation to me to prevent the like. But the foresaid Motives are far greater.
§ 8. His scorn, p. 11, 12. for my purpose to have medled with such Men in the Cause of Conformity no more, seems some invitation to me to prevent the like. But the foresaid Motives are far greater.