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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.
Ans. His Opinion in this, is not without the consent of some very learned and good men: And if he had held only, that immortality is proper to the spiritual, so far as it is immortal blessedness, who would contradict him? But seeing it is the undistinguished immortality of the Soul that he speaketh of, I shall in this, with submission, declare my Dissent and Reasons.
Ans. His Opinion in this, is not without the consent of some very learned and good men: And if he had held only, that immortality is proper to the spiritual, so far as it is immortal blessedness, who would contradict him? But seeing it is the undistinguisht immortality of the Soul that he speaketh of, I shall in this, with submission, declare my Dissent and Reasons.
§ 35.1. I confess that, as I said, it is an Allay to his damning Sentence of thousands of God's faithful Servants: For it seems by [Damnation] he meaneth but Death, and the loss of Heaven, in which the Soul is dead as well as the Body; and so he judgeth us not to any other Hell. But then all the Infidels, Atheists, Murderers, Perjured, Adulterers and Drunkards, find the like kindness from him (if it will prove such). It seems all their Souls are mortal, and die as Beasts: And so the fear of Hell, or any pain after Death, is dismissed by him to all the World.
§ 35.1. I confess that, as I said, it is an Allay to his damning Sentence of thousands of God's faithful Servants: For it seems by [Damnation] he meaneth but Death, and the loss of Heaven, in which the Soul is dead as well as the Body; and so he judgeth us not to any other Hell. But then all the Infidels, Atheists, Murderers, Perjured, Adulterers and Drunkards, find the like kindness from him (if it will prove such). It seems all their Souls are mortal, and die as Beasts: And so the fear of Hell, or any pain after Death, is dismist by him to all the World.