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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.
III. This Body hath integral parts of various degrees, differing in Knowledge, Orthodoxness, Piety, Peace, Power of Preaching, and Purity and order of Worship and Government. Some in it Preach Christ not sincerely, but in strife, and contention, to add affliction to sincere suffering Preachers: and some, as Diotrephes, receive not the Brethren, but cast them out of the Church, and forbid others to receive them, and judge or despise each other for things that God would have left free; and receive not those that Christ receiveth.
IV. All of them differ in multitudes of accidents. They are not bound to agree in the same Forms, Liturgies, or unnecessary Circumstances: Nor in humane additional Modes, called forms of Government in Accidents; as in Patriarchs, Metropolitans, extended Diocese's, &c. Nor are they bound to take account of the Ordinations, Presentation, Titles, and Rights of all the foreign Churches of other Kingdoms with whom they are to hold Communion; nor to be Triers or Judges between contending Parties, which is the true Pastor: (Though in the same Kingdom, and under the same Laws, order may require this oft times.) Possession and Profession may satisfy them.
IV. All of them differ in multitudes of accidents. They are not bound to agree in the same Forms, Liturgies, or unnecessary Circumstances: Nor in humane additional Modes, called forms of Government in Accidents; as in Patriarchs, Metropolitans, extended Diocess's, &c. Nor are they bound to take account of the Ordinations, Presentation, Titles, and Rights of all the foreign Churches of other Kingdoms with whom they are to hold Communion; nor to be Tryers or Judges between contending Parties, which is the true Pastor: (Though in the same Kingdom, and under the same Laws, order may require this oft times.) Possession and Profession may satisfie them.