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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.
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.
3. An Infidel must not be Baptized till he profess with seeming Seriousness, and Willingness that he Believeth in God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and will Vow and Devote himself to Him: Therefore to force the unwilling to be Baptized, is a Sacrilegious Profanation of Baptism.
3. An Infidel must not be Baptized till he profess with seeming Seriousness, and Willingness that he Believeth in God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and will Vow and Devote himself to Him: Therefore to force the unwilling to be Baptized, is a Sacrilegious Prophanation of Baptism.