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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
UNNECESSARY SEPARATING, disowned; in the Reasons of the Authors Cen… › Section
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Ans. 1. It is not to satisfy such as you describe, that I do what I do: It is to satisfy my own Conscience in obeying God.
Ans. 1. It is not to satisfie such as you describe, that I do what I do: It is to satisfie my own Conscience in obeying God.
2. If but any one of all the forementioned Reasons hold good, it is not in vain, tho it satisfy not the implacable. Do you think I go to worship God only to satisfy men? I daily receive that benefit to my self, which assureth me that it is not in vain.
2. If but any one of all the forementioned Reasons hold good, it is not in vain, tho it satisfie not the implacable. Do you think I go to worship God only to satisfie men? I daily receive that benefit to my self, which assureth me that it is not in vain.
Obj. 2. You that come so near them, please them no better, and you have suffered with the first.
Ans. 1. Had I done it to escape suffering, I would have done that which I suffered for not doing, and not done that which I suffered for. But all that I have ever suffered from men, is but a Flea-biting to that which I suffer from the Diseases of my own Soul and Body: and yet I can love and forgive my self.