A26882:148
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.
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.]
They say that the Mother of Lombard, Gratian, and Pet. Comestor being a Whore, said she could not repent of the Fornication that had begot three such Sons: If any say that the Saints in Heaven do not so much as ⟨p. 26⟩wish, or will that they had not sinned, because Christ is glorified by saving them from it, they pervert the Gospel Doctrine of Grace, and would teach the justified on Earth to be impenitent.
They say that the Mother of Lombard, Gratian, and Pet. Comestor being a Whore, said she could not repent of the Fornication that had begot three such Sons: If any say that the Saints in Heaven do not so much as ⟨p. 26⟩wish, or will that they had not sinned, because Christ is glorifyed by saving them from it, they pervert the Gospel Doctrine of Grace, and would teach the justifyed on Earth to be impenitent.