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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.
SECT. 5. A Comparison of the use of a faulty Translation of the Scripture, and a faulty Liturgy.
SECT. 5. A Comparison of the use of a faulty Translation of the Scripture, and a faulty Lyturgy.
IN Queen Elizabeths days the Bishops Translation of the Bible, and that called the Old one being faulty, were only in use. King James procured a better, but the Liturgy still retained, the Old one. Suppose a Law were made that only the Old faulty Translation be used; many refuse it, and suffer for it; the Parliament cometh and establisheth the New Translation, and swear all men to promote it as a part of Reformation; we are in possession of it for sixteen years: then a Law is made that all shall go to Prison that use any but the Old; two thousand break this Law, and use the New, and suffer part of the penalty, and shift from the rest as long as they can. At last the State is resolved to suffer them no longer, but, in Prison they shall lie: Hereupon many suffer Imprisonment, many die there. Some few in London keep up secret Worship with the New Translation, and others go to the Churches▪ where the Old is used. In the Countries there is not past one Minister in twelve or twenty Miles that keeps up a Meeting in the use of the New one. The few that yet do, say, that [to use the Old one, or join with such as do, is Covenant-breaking, and false Worship, and unlawful, and a going back from Reformation.] Some that live in Countries where none in twenty Miles openly use the New one, come to R. B. for counsel; he desireth them to bring one of the contrary Judgment, and judge when they hear both: He tells them, that, 1. They should keep up the New Translation as far as they can in Gods Public Worship, while the hurt will not be greater than the benefit. 2. That when they have no Public Church or Worship to join with, but what useth the Old one, they should rather join with such than none▪ As also when they cannot have the New one without more hurt than benefit. 3. And that while they can have the New one, they should not renounce Communion with the Churches that use the Old one, as separating from it as unlawful, but only disown the faults of the Old one, while they disown not the Communion of the Churches in the use of it.