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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.
Answ. 1. Have you answered what they have said, and said again towards a Proof? Remember that you call them to it, and justify their Separation, if they prove it.
Answ. 1. Have you answered what they have said, and said again towards a Proof? Remember that you call them to it, and justifie their Separation, if they prove it.
2. But your Conclusion is false and odious, leaving it doubtful, what part of the Christian World you damn not. If I could prove that you separate causelessly from the Nonconformists, doth that certainly cut you from all the Church? I doubt there are too few Christians on earth, who do not in some degree separate causelessly from others? Grotius joined with no Church locally in Worship, long before he died. Most of the Church in East, West, South and North, is damned falsely by this Rule. He that doth but causelessly separate pro tempore from a Preacher, by Passion or Mistake (as Mr. Martin aforesaid from Mr. Lapth•rne) separate causelessly from a true and sound part of the Christian Church.
2. But your Conclusion is false and odious, leaving it doubtful, what part of the Christian World you damn not. If I could prove that you separate causelesly from the Nonconformists, doth that certainly cut you from all the Church? I doubt there are too few Christians on earth, who do not in some degree separate causelesly from others? Grotius joyned with no Church locally in Worship, long before he died. Most of the Church in East, West, South and North, is damned falsly by this Rule. He that doth but causelesly separate pro tempore from a Preacher, by Passion or Mistake (as Mr. Martin aforesaid from Mr. Lapth•rne) separate causelesly from a true and sound part of the Christian Church.