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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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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.
Ans. 1. Experience confuteth this: I think most who hear me, do think it lawful, and oft go thither. 2. I have oft told them publicly, That I desire none of them to hear me, who do not need my help: If they have room, and sufficient helps in the Parish-Churches, I had rather they would not take up, with us, the room which others should have who truly need our help. If nothing bring them to me, but an Opinion, that it's sin to join with the Common-Prayer, I will do my best to drive them from me. But if any cannot have room elsewhere, or cannot overcome the foresaid mistake (of the sin of hearing the Parish-Minister), ⟨p. 26⟩