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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. Reader, while the Piper, Harper, or Trumpeter, giveth no distinction in the sound, (1 Cor. 7.7, 8.) but thinks that crying [Communion, Communion] should charm men into the same Disease of Confusion and Schism, which he is sick of; If thou be awake, I invite thee still but to use thy Reason in these three distinctions 1. Between Subjection and Communion. 2. Between local Separation and mental. 3. Between mental Separation in and from mere circumstances, accidents, or integrals, and in and from essentials necessary to Christianity and Christian Communion; And then if thou canst not Answer this Doctor, and escape Schism, which he tempts thee to, without any further Confutation, I despair of curing thee.
2. Reader, while the Piper, Harper, or Trumpeter, giveth no distinction in the sound, (1 Cor. 7.7, 8.) but thinks that crying [Communion, Communion] should charm men into the same Disease of Confusion and Schism, which he is sick of; If thou be awake, I invite thee still but to use thy Reason in these three distinctions 1. Between Subjection and Communion. 2. Between local Separation and mental. 3. Between mental Separation in and from meer circumstances, accidents, or integrals, and in and from essentials necessary to Christianity and Christian Communion; And then if thou canst not Answer this Doctor, and escape Schism, which he tempts thee to, without any further Confutation, I dispair of curing thee.
1. None are of Christ's Church that separate from any thing Essential to it.
2. All Congregations are locally divided and separated from one another.