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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. Parochial Churches, are the settled National order.
5. The Laws command our joining with them.
6. The Magistrates accuse and prosecute the refusers.
7. The Parish Ministers are offended at our refusal, and accuse it as sinful separation, and so interpret it.
All this set together, maketh, it past all denial, that after all this, to avoid all Parish Communion, is by our Actions to say, that we judge it unlawful, whatever is in our Hearts: Had we all these calls to go sometimes to the French and Dutch Church (supposing that we understood them) and would not go, it were a scandalous signification, that we judge it sinful. And one may Lie by Deeds as well as by Words.