A26882:211
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.
IV. Keep your Possession as long as you can without more hurt than good. I am not one that ever strove to take it from you. But do your Brethren in Prison enjoy Public Worship? You'll ⟨p. 34⟩say, they do better. It's easier bearing their Imprisonment, Poverty and Death, than your own. But what shall ten parts of the Kingdom do, that must have the Old Translation or none? You'll say, I suppose, They may give over all Church Worship as impossible, and take up with Family Worship.
IV. Keep your Possession as long as you can without more hurt than good. I am not one that ever strove to take it from you. But do your Brethren in Prison enjoy Publick Worship? You'l ⟨p. 34⟩say, they do better. It's easier bearing their Imprisonment, Poverty and Death, than your own. But what shall ten parts of the Kingdom do, that must have the Old Translation or none? You'l say, I suppose, They may give over all Church Worship as impossible, and take up with Family Worship.
But stay, 1. Must you not first prove the Old so bad, as that no-Church Worship is better? Have you proved this? 2. Will not your Reason prove, that we must also separate from you? Have not weak Ministers as bad faults as a weak Translation? 3. What's become then of your saying, We had Possession? Have they Possession of better that have none at all? Or, will you be without all, because you had once Possession of better? And will it excuse your ungodliness, that you can lay the blame on them that dipossest you? Or if they be Schismatics for so using you, doth it follow that you are none, if you persuade all to separate from all Gods Church Worship rather than join where the Old Translation is used.
But stay, 1. Must you not first prove the Old so bad, as that no-Church Worship is better? Have you proved this? 2. Will not your Reason prove, that we must also separate from you? Have not weak Ministers as bad faults as a weak Translation? 3. What's become then of your saying, We had Possession? Have they Possession of better that have none at all? Or, will you be without all, because you had once Possession of better? And will it excuse your ungodliness, that you can lay the blame on them that dipossest you? Or if they be Schismaticks for so using you, doth it follow that you are none, if you persuade all to separate from all Gods Church Worship rather than joyn where the Old Translation is used.