A26882:158
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.
If the Law required us to meet for Gods Worship at an inconvenient place or time, or to use a version of Psalms in Metre, or a Translation of Scripture that is not the best, he that useth these in obedience to this (because Concord in these according to Law, is better then a better Version, Translation, Hour, Place, with Discord, and because Obedience may do more good then better circumstances would without it) yet doth not hereby justify the Law. If the Law bid you appear before Justices or Judges that are bad men, and unjust, you may obey the Law, and not justify it.
If the Law required us to meet for Gods Worship at an inconvenient place or time, or to use a version of Psalms in Meeter, or a Translation of Scripture that is not the best, he that useth these in obedience to this (because Concord in these according to Law, is better then a better Version, Translation, Hour, Place, with Discord, and because Obedience may do more good then better circumstances would without it) yet doth not hereby justify the Law. If the Law bid you appear before Justices or Judges that are bad men, and unjust, you may obey the Law, and not justify it.
Dear Brother, I will not aggravate your Error by its ill Consequences: But you and I tell the world, what need all men have of pardon in our mistakes, even when we are most confident.
Dear Brother, I will not aggravate your Errour by its ill Consequences: But you and I tell the world, what need all men have of pardon in our mistakes, even when we are most confident.
2. And as to your second affirmation, it is not true without limitation, [That submitting to a Law, on consideration of the Penalties, is so far a justifying its preceptive part, as not so great an evil as the Penal.]