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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.
§ 6. III. As to the Third Case, [For what Reasons I, and such other join in Worship and Communion with Parish-Churches? And whether our practice be a sin or a duty, or a thing indifferent?] For answer, I. I shall show what I am not pleading for. II. What it is that I hold and plead for, or defend. III. What are the Reasons of my practice. IV. Why it is that I now give out my Reasons.
§ 6. III. As to the Third Case, [For what Reasons I, and such other join in Worship and Communion with Parish-Churches? And whether our practice be a sin or a duty, or a thing indifferent?] For answer, I. I shall shew what I am not pleading for. II. What it is that I hold and plead for, or defend. III. What are the Reasons of my practice. IV. Why it is that I now give out my Reasons.
§ 7. I. For the First, 1. I am far from persuading any one to commit the least sin on pretence of Concord or Communion with any Church on earth. Their damnation is just, who say, Let us do evil that good may come. Sin may seem to serve us for a Job, but it will be bitter in the latter end.
§ 7. I. For the First, 1. I am far from perswading any one to commit the least sin on pretence of Concord or Communion with any Church on earth. Their damnation is just, who say, Let us do evil that good may come. Sin may seem to serve us for a Job, but it will be bitter in the latter end.
2. I would not have any to stretch their Consciences for Worldly Interest, to believe that Sin is no Sin, or that they may do it because it is a little one. It is no little one to him that does it wilfully for Worldly Ends.