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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.
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.
But, good friend, if really Christ and Scripture be your Guide, I desire no more; tell me, and lay by partiality; Did not Christ and his Apostles use both in the Synagogues, Church. Meetings, and Writings a faulty Translation of the Old Testament, and as bad as ours▪ Deny it if you can for shame. Though sometimes they varied, they mostly used the Septuagint, according to which our faulty▪ Translation of the Old Testament is made, as it differs from the Hebrew. Is this no Confutation of you? Yea, Christ and the Apostles used it the rather▪ because it was in common use. 2. And are you sure that among so many Greek differing Copies as we have of the New Testament, that you use and follow none but the best.
But, good friend, if really Christ and Scripture be your Guide, I desire no more; tell me, and lay by partiality; Did not Christ and his Apostles use both in the Synagogues, Church. Meetings, and Writings a faulty Translation of the Old Testament, and as bad as ours▪ Deny it if you can for shame. Though sometimes they varyed, they mostly used the Septuagint, according to which our faulty Translation of the Old Testament is made, as it differs from the Hebrew. Is this no Consutation of you? Yea, Christ and the Apostles used it the rather because it was in common use. 2. And are you sure that among so many Greek differing Copies as we have of the New Testament, that you use and follow none but the best.