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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.
II. Whether they who consent to Communicate with some Church, may choose their own Pastor and Company, or may by force be confined to their Parish Priest, and Church?
II. Whether they who consent to Communicate with some Church, may chuse their own Pastor and Company, or may by force be confined to their Parish Priest, and Church?
III. For what Reasons I, and such others, Hear in, and Communicate with the Parish Churches? And whether so to do, be a Sin, or a Duty, or a thing Indifferent.
§ 2. I. To the first case I answer, 1. It were happy, if the Sword could compel Unbelievers to Believe; but it cannot, nor is a way which Nature or Scripture ever allowed Man to use for such an end.
2. To force an Unbeliever to Lie, by saying he Believeth, is a Sin.