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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. Those that you damn and persecute, profess to do this to the best of their understanding, and say, it is for doing it that you revile and ruin them.
3. We suppose, that when Christ's Laws and Man's interfere, Christ's are to be obeyed against Man's.
4. And we take not the Church of England to be cut off from Christ's Church; if it should be proved, that they [observe not all the Laws and Institutions of Christ]: In this you preach Separation too blindly. There are some Laws and Institutions of so low a Nature, that Error and Offence against them, cuts not Men off from the Church.
But what is his other Notion of [a Christian Church]? Why, It's that which contains the Conventicles of Heretics and Schismatics, which are a middle thing between the true Catholic Church and the World of Infidels, as Rebels in a Kingdom.
But what is his other Notion of [a Christian Church]? Why, It's that which contains the Conventicles of Hereticks and Schismaticks, which are a middle thing between the true Catholick Church and the World of Infidels, as Rebels in a Kingdom.