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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.
D. O.
Posit. It is not Lawful for us to go to, and join in Public Worship by the Common Prayer; because that Worship it self, according to the Rule of the Gospel, is not Lawful.
Posit. It is not Lawful for us to go to, and joyn in Publick Worship by the Common Prayer; because that Worship it self, according to the Rule of the Gospel, is not Lawful.
1. Ans. I Shall use the same Method that he hath used, and first give you my Positions, and then the supposed Matter of Fact; and then consider his Arguments.
Posit. It is not only Lawful, but a Duty for those that cannot have better public Church-worship without more hurt than benefit, and are near a competent Parish Minister, to go to, and join in Public Worship, performed according to the Liturgy, and in Sacramental Communion: And for those that can have better, to join sometime with such Parish Churches, when their forbearance scandalously seemeth to signify, that they take such Communion for unlawful; and so would tempt others to the same Accusation, and uncharitable Separation.