A26882:214
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, 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.
I would add a similitude, supposing that we had just possession of the Public Church-place• & Tithes, & they are taken from us, & we can blame them that did it, and say over and over, We had Possession, and therefore it is unlawful to meet in worse Rooms, for God must have the best; will this hold when you cannot keep possession? ▪Will you rather worship no where? This is no better than if you would tell all men, they should die rather than eat Brown Bread, if force take all other from them, because it is unjustly done, and they had possession of better. Good friends, keep your possession for me; but I own not the famishing of all that are dispossessed. If you do, I do not.