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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. Do, or must all men forbear giving a Reason of their Judgment and Practice to those that think them sinful? yea, or to confute the mistakes of others, for fear of being censured? Will you censure us, and must not hear our Reasons? Are you so much worse than Lawyers, that can plead without breach of Charity? May not friendly debates beat out the truth to our mutual edification? No truths are so clear to us, before they are controverted, usually, as after. Reproach not the Nonconformists, as if they could not bear contradiction.
Obj. 8. Your Cure of Church-Divisions did increase Divisions.
Ans. The Disease then is very far gone, if the Remedy increase it: But I have cause to believe that it healed many. But I confess, as the Books by which I drew off many Anabaptists, did increase Division from their Party, by ceasing the Divisions from the Church; so it may be here.
Obj. 9. But if men believe it lawful to go to the Parish-Churches, they will come to your Assemblies no more.