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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.
4. Where public Ministers or Worship are not utterly intolerable, but greatly insufficient for the preservation of Religion and good of Souls, by Disability, or unsound Doctrine, or Vice; there the chief preservation of Religion must be in Voluntary Churches; but so, that the Parochial be no further disowned than there is cause.
4. Where publick Ministers or Worship are not utterly intolerable, but greatly insufficient for the preservation of Religion and good of Souls, by Disability, or unsound Doctrine, or Vice; there the chief preservation of Religion must be in Voluntary Churches; but so, that the Parochial be no further disowned than there is cause.
5. Where the public Ministry and Worship are sound, but impose some unnecessary doubtful things, as conditions of Communion, in justice they bind themselves thereby to allow Voluntary Churches to such as take these terms to be sin.
5. Where the publick Ministry and Worship are sound, but impose some unnecessary doubtful things, as conditions of Communion, in justice they bind themselves thereby to allow Voluntary Churches to such as take these terms to be sin.
6. When the Ministry, and Church-Worship, and State, are sound, and the conditions lawful, and weakness maketh conscionable Christians think otherwise, there private Churches must be tolerated, but as Hospitals for the sick, under the care of the Magistrate, keeping peace.