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Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state…
Catholic communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty liturgy.Catholick communion doubly defended by Dr. Owens, vindicator, and Richard Baxter and the state of that communion opened, and the questions discussed, whether there be any displeasure at sin, or repentance for it in Heaven : with a parallel of the case of using a faulty translation of Scripture, and a faulty lyturgy.
London: printed for Thomas 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.
Perhaps you'll say, It's a vain wish of an impossibility? Ans. No such matter: I talk not of a prayer, or a desire that factum non factum fiat; but a Vellem or Mallem me non peccasse: I had rather I had not sinned: And that is not vain, which is the Wills perfection or Holiness itself.
Perhaps you'l say, It's a vain wish of an impossibility? Ans. No such matter: I talk not of a prayer, or a desire that factum non factum fiat; but a Vellem or Mallem me non peccasse: I had rather I had not sinned: And that is not vain, which is the Wills perfection or Holiness itself.
6. And that they would not do the like again, I need not prove.
I were a greater dishonourer of Heavenly felicity, if I denied any of these, then you feign me to be. I doubt not but those aforesaid that are disposed to obloquy, will take occasion from your words (yea, the Papists from your entitling all Protestants to it) to say [The Nonconformists (or the Protestants) hold that Murder, Rebellion, Persecution, and all sin is so small a matter to their Saints in Heaven, that they do not so much as Repent of it, or will or wish they had never done it. Therefore they either justify it, or are neuters to it.]
I were a greater dishonourer of Heavenly felicity, if I denyed any of these, then you feign me to be. I doubt not but those aforesaid that are disposed to obloquy, will take occasion from your words (yea, the Papists from your entitling all Protestants to it) to say [The Nonconformists (or the Protestants) hold that Murder, Rebellion, Perfecution, and all sin is so small a matter to their Saints in Heaven, that they do not so much as Repent of it, or will or wish they had never done it. Therefore they either justify it, or are neuters to it.]