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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.
The other say• 1. That it is a cursed thing to offer God a worse, while we have better. 2. That we are sworn against it. 3. That it is false Worship, and obeying man before God. 4. That we do but keep our possession, which they would put us out of, and it's▪ they that separate from us, and not we from them. 5. That we keep to Gods Word, which is the only Rule. And therefore Communion with the Old Translation is unlawful, and we should rather suffer death.
R. B. answereth, I. 1. That it is a cursed thing to give God no Public Worship, because we cannot have the New▪ Translation, and to live like Atheists▪ if we cannot have what we would. None▪ is worse than the Old. Family Worship without Church Worship, is worse than an Old Translation▪ 2. And that it is not we that offer God▪ the worse before the better; it is they that exclude the better, which we protest against, having not our choice.
R. B. answereth, I. 1. That it is a cursed thing to give God no Publick Worship, because we cannot have the New▪ Translation, and to live like Atheists▪ if we cannot have what we would. None▪ is worse than the Old. Family VVorship without Church VVorship, is worse than an Old Translation▪ 2. And that it is not we that offer God▪ the worse before the better; it is they that exclude the better, which we protest against, having not our choice.