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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.
10. I persuade none to the sinful fear of man, or to abate Christian fortitude, constancy and patience in a good Cause, nor to be over-tender of the Flesh, or make too great a matter of their suffering. Alas! what are Worms, that in the way to the Grave they should be feared more than God? Poverty and Prisons may be as safe and near a way to Heaven, as Wealth and Liberty. None of all these are the things that I am for.
10. I perswade none to the sinful fear of man, or to abate Christian fortitude, constancy and patience in a good Cause, nor to be over-tender of the Flesh, or make too great a matter of their suffering. Alas! what are Worms, that in the way to the Grave they should be feared more than God? Poverty and Prisons may be as safe and near a way to Heaven, as Wealth and Liberty. None of all these are the things that I am for.
§ 8. II. That you may know the Reasons of my own practice, I shall next tell you, what it is that my judgment is for: which leads me to it.
And 1. I think all persons are visible Christians who are Baptized, and profess their continued consent to the Baptismal Covenant, and are not proved to have renounced or forsaken it by Word or Deed.