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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.
If any Church will deny men Communion, unless they subscribe to some one small Untruth (as the Liturgies false Rule to find out Easter-day, or a mis-translation; or the denial, that Christ died for all, &c.) this doth not unchurch them all. But men have made so many snares by their numerous invented sinful forms of Communion, that by such schismatical Censures as this, one scarce knows what Church on Earth is •ot unchurched.
If any Church will deny men Communion, unless they subscribe to some one small Untruth (as the Liturgies false Rule to find out Easter-day, or a mis-translation; or the denial, that Christ died for all, &c.) this doth not unchurch them all. But men have made so many snares by their numerous invented sinful forms of Communion, that by such schsmatical Censures as this, one scarce knows what Church on Earth is •ot unchurched.
§. 54. He saith, [Where there is […] b••ach of Communion, no declared […] act of communion between […] be in communion with each […]. You may say of them what you will; But all these Negatives speak no positive Act: And is Communion nothing but Negations? All this I may say of those that never heard of each others being. 2. There may be an express disowning of each, as the Romans did the Asians about Easter, and the Africans about rebaptizing, and the Britons disowned Augustine, and as some disown a Pair of Organs, or neglect ⟨p. 55⟩of Discipline, &c. And yet both be parts of the Catholic Church.
§. 54. He saith, [Where there is 〈…〉 b••ach of Communion, no declared 〈…〉 act of communi•n between 〈…〉 be in communion with each . You may say of them what you will; But all these Negatives speak no positive Act: And is Communion nothing but Negations? All this I may say of those that never heard of each others being. 2. There may be an express disowning of each, as the Romans did the Asians about Easter, and the Africans about rebaptizing, and the Britains disowned Augustine, and as some disown a Pair of Organs, or neglect