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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
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.
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.
2. If I suffer for the acts of Piety, Love and Peace, it is for righteousness: And then Christ hath commanded me exceedingly to rejoice, Mat. 5.10, 11. But if I suffer for sinful censoriousness and division, what will be my comfort?
2. If I suffer for the acts of Piety, Love and Peace, it is for righteousness: And then Christ hath commanded me exceedingly to rejoyce, Mat. 5.10, 11. But if I suffer for sinful censoriousness and division, what will be my comfort?
3. I doubt not but I much more displease the Papists by my course of Communion, than they do, who by unjustifiable Opinions, do make their cause indefensible, and expose themselves to their triumph.
3. I doubt not but I much more displease the Papists by my course of Communion, than they do, who by unjustfiable Opinions, do make their cause indefensible, and expose themselves to their triumph.