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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.
So, 1. True Believers and Heart-Covenanters, are the Christians in famosiore & propriâ signification analogati, to whom the denomination of the Church is ordinarily given in the New-Testament.
So, 1. True Believers and Heart-Covenanters, are the Christians in famosiore & propriâ significatione analogati, to whom the denomination of the Church is ordinarily given in the New-Testament.
2. Verbal profession and covenanting, is common to the sound and unsound, as the Straw and Chaff to the Grain and Ears. It constituteth the Church as visible matter, as it is supposed to serve and contain the Grain
3. The Ears totally and visibly smitten, are but equivocally parts; that is, the persons whose profession or notorious practice containeth a renunciation of their Baptismal Covenant or Christianity, are but equivocally called Christians and Church-Members.
4. Those that deny some Article of Faith consequentially, notoriously and ignorantly thinking their Opinion consistent with all the Essentials which they practically profess, are not thereby cut off from the Church; but they having made their Title litigious, may be suspended from some Communion till it be tried.