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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.
Ans. 1. Because I think I have an urgent cause to endeavour to save some from the guilt of Persecution: And if I note the mistakes of One side only, I shall be justly charged with partiality.
2. Because mens censure of my practice, as sinful, doth continue: And I owe them an account of the Reasons of it.
3. Dr. Stillingfleet, and such others, would make the World believe, that we defend that Separation which by word and practice we have long opposed: And we owe fuller satisfaction to them, and to such as they misinform.
4. I am much obliged to rectify mens mistake of the Reason, why many Nonconforming Ministers here come not to the Parish Churches: Many were agreed to come, when the Oxford Act of Confinement coming out, prevented it: For to have appeared in the Churches, would have exposed them to Six months imprisonment for being in the City. And since then, the same Reason hindereth many, which keepeth Conformists from communicating with each other, even their own labours at home. But many do go to the Churches in public, and I conjecture others hereafter will get their Places sometime supplied by others, that they may go: For most of my acquaintance hold it lawful, as far as I can judg.