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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.
XIV. Yea, I am loth to do that which condemneth groundlessly the Reformers, the Martyrs, the Godly Conformists, the old Non-Conformists, the later, and the Brownists themselves, as being all for unlawful Communion.
XIV. Yea, I am loth to do that which condemneth groundlesly the Reformers, the Martyrs, the Godly Conformists, the old Non-Conformists, the later, and the Brownists themselves, as being all for unlawful Communion.
1. If it be simply unlawful to have Communion in the Liturgy and Parish-Churches, then it was unlawful to have Communicated in their way of Worship, with Luther, Zuinglius, Melanchthon, Bucer, Pet. Martyr, and the like Reformers: And also with the English Martyrs in Queen Mar••s days, or in King Edward 6. And also with such Holy and Excellent Conformists, as Grindall, Pilkington, Downame, B••ton, Sibbs, Preston, […], and abundance more such.
1. If it be simply unlawful to have Communion in the Liturgy and Parish-Churches, then it was unlawful to have Communicated in their way of Worship, with Luther, Zuinglius, Melanchton, Bucer, Pet. Martyr, and the like Reformers: And also with the English Martyrs in Queen Mar••s daies, or in King Edward 6. And also with such Holy and Excellent Conformists, as Grindall, Pilkington, Downame, B••ton, Sibbs, Preston, 〈…〉, and abundance more such.
2. And it's well known, that the old Non-Conformists wrote and practised against the Brownists in this case. The Books of Hildersham; Brightman, Bradshaw, Ball, Paget, Gifford, &c. are yet visible. Mr. Hildersham in his Lectures chides them that will not come to the beginning of the Common-Prayer. The old Non-Conformists begin the reasons of their Non-Conformity in refusing Subscription, in these Words, [We protest before Almighty God, that we acknowledge the Churches of England, as they be established by public Authority, to be […] visible Churches of Christ