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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.
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.
V. Gods Word is the Rule; but only a general Rule for words, modes and circumstances. To love God and our Neighbour, and the Unity of the Church, are his greatest Commands. Go learn what these mean: To violate these, and forsake all Church Worship, if you cannot have the best Translation, is not to keep to the Rule, but most grossly to violate it in the greatest Commands against many Scripture Admonitions, which vehemently urge you to Love and Unity.
V. Gods Word is the Rule; but only a general Rule for words, modes and circumstances. To love God and our Neighbour, and the Unity of the Church, are his greatest Commands. Go learn what these mean: To violate these, and forsake all Church Worship, if you cannot have the best Translation, is not to keep to the Rule, but most grosly to violate it in the greatest Commands against many Scripture Admonitions, which vehemently urge you to Love and Unity.