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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
The Twelve Arguments said to be Dr. Owens, impartially considered.
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.
And the Author that I deal with, necessitateth me to recite the late fruits of Separation, in pulling down all Governments, casting out all the Ministers in Wales, and were near casting down those of England, with Tithes and Universities, persecuting and killing godly men, and fathering all on God, and now flying from the Bishops when they had opened them the door to return. He layeth his main Cause on the ill fruits of Liturgies (which indeed are rather the fruits of Pride and Malignity), and constraineth me to show the fruits of Separation. I dare not bury that in silence which God so dreadfully disowned by their own dissolution, without any blood; and that when multitudes are running into the old error, by mistaking the Judgment of the Nonconforming Ministers, thinking that they took that for unlawful which they did not, and condemning all the excellent old Nonconformists and Conformists, and almost all the Churches on Earth.
And the Author that I deal with, necessitateth me to recite the late fruits of Separation, in pulling down all Governments, casting out all the Ministers in Wales, and were near casting down those of England, with Tythes and Universities, persecuting and killing godly men, and fathering all on God, and now flying from the Bishops when they had opened them the door to return. He layeth his main Cause on the ill fruits of Liturgies (which indeed are rather the fruits of Pride and Malignity), and constraineth me to shew the fruits of Separation. I dare not bury that in silence which God so dreadfully disowned by their own diss•lution, without any blood; and that when multitudes are running into the old error, by mistaking the Iudgment of the Nonconforming Ministers, thinking that they took that for unlawful which they did not, and condemning all the excellent old Nonconformists and Conformists, and almost all the Churches on Earth.
Let wiser men deal wiselier: I use the best wisdom that I have.