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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. I persuade no one to own the Ministry of an uncapable Person; viz. one utterly Insufficient, Heretical, or Malignant, who doth more harm than good. The Conformists own this Rule, while they silence so many, and tell men, that those that have not Ordination by Diocesans, are not to be communicated with, or owned as Ministers. Both sides then confess, that uncapable persons are not to be owned.
4. I perswade no one to own the Ministry of an uncapable Person; viz. one utterly Insufficient, Heretical, or Malignant, who doth more harm than good. The Conformists own this Rule, while they silence so many, and tell men, that those that have not Ordination by Diocesans, are not to be communicated with, or owned as Ministers. Both sides then confess, that uncapable persons are not to be owned.
5. I persuade none to be indifferent in the matters which concern their souls, as whom they hear or choose to be their Pastor, nor in what manner they worship God, nor to prefer any person or mode, which (all things considered) is worse before better; nor to deny themselves the great help of a learned, skilful, godly, faithful Pastor, to teach them publicly, and counsel them privately, when they may have such, merely because it is forbidden them by men, and the Patron hath chosen them another, who hath no such qualifications.
5. I perswade none to be indifferent in the matters which concern their souls, as whom they hear or chuse to be their Pastor, nor in what manner they worship God, nor to prefer any person or mode, which (all things considered) is worse before better; nor to deny themselves the great help of a learned, skilful, godly, faithful Pastor, to teach them publickly, and counsel them privately, when they may have such, meerly because it is forbidden them by men, and the Patron hath chosen them another, who hath no such qualifications.