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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.
II. Tho we are all under one Universal Law of Love, Peace, Concord and Obedience, every man breaketh this Law in some degree: but every breach doth not out-law us, or prove us Rebels against God. Whoever so far breaks the Law of Christian Love, Peace and Concord, as will prove that he hath not the sincere Love of God and his Brethren, it is as truly damning (in its degree) as Murder or Adultery, specially if it be notorious in silencings, revilings of godly men, and persecution, to the hinderance of the Gospel, and the encouraging of profane unconscionable men. But whoever breaks the Laws of Christian Love, Peace and Concord, only so far as may proceed from mere imperfection of Knowledge, Love and Obedience, in a sincere heart where Love is predominant, God pardoneth him, tho he may correct him; and it doth not Unchurch him.
II. Tho we are all under one Universal Law of Love, Peace, Concord and Obedience, every man breaketh this Law in some degree: but every breach doth not out-law us, or prove us Rebels against God. Whoever so far breaks the Law of Christian Love, Peace and Concord, as will prove that he hath not the sincere Love of God and his Brethren, it is as truly damning (in its degree) as Murder or Adultery, specially if it be notorious in silencings, revilings of godly men, and persecution, to the hinderance of the Gospel, and the encouraging of prophane unconscionable men. But whoever breaks the Laws of Christian Love, Peace and Concord, only so far as may proceed from meer imperfection of Knowledg, Love and Obedience, in a sincere heart where Love is predominant, God pardoneth him, tho he may correct him; and it doth not Unchurch him.
III. He that despiseth the Ministry out of predominant pride, or profaneness, or unbelief, doth it damnably: But so doth not he that in uprightness of heart, for fear of guilt, flieth further from an ignorant, false or malignant Teacher, than he ought.
III. He that despiseth the Ministry out of predominant pride, or prophaness, or unbelief, doth it damnably: But so doth not he that in uprightness of heart, for fear of guilt, flyeth further from an ignorant, false or malignant Teacher, than he ought.