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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
Section 6: An Expository Advertisement about naming faulty Persons.
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 sure Th•ulerus was a godly man; and Grotius commendeth John Ar•di and his followers as men of piety and peace: and notwithstanding his vain affected words, Jacob Behmen seemed a pious man; and I loved many of his chief Followers in England, of my acquaintance, because their Spirit and Writings were all for Love and Peace, (and their difficult Gibberish made me fearless of their multiplying, or ever doing any great hurt.)
but sure Th•ulerus was a godly man; and Grotius commendeth Iohn Ar•di and his followers as men of piety and peace: and notwithstanding his vain affected words, Iacob Behmen seemed a pious man; and I loved many of his chief Followers in England, of my acquaintance, because their Spirit and Writings were all for Love and Peace, (and their difficult Gibberish made me fearless of their multiplying, or ever doing any great hurt.)
And the Papists quite out-do us in naming their Opponents, and their Errors, and yet not renouncing Communion with them, but keeping them in the bosom of their Church; as whole loads of Books written by the Schoolmen, and several Sects and Orders against each other show: And specially the Controversies between the Seculars and Regulars, sharply handled by Watson. in his Quodlibets, and divers others: And newly Peter Walsh, that calls himself Valesius, and Sergeants, and his Blaklow's Controversies tell us more. But none more than the Jesuists and Jansenists: did we differ about half as many and weighty points as are recited in the Jesuits Morals, and their Charge against the Jansenists, we should scarce think each other fit to be Members of one Communion.
And the Papists quite out-do us in naming their Opponents, and their Errours, and yet not renouncing Communion with them, but keeping them in the bosom of their Church; as whole loads of Books written by the Schoolmen, and several Sects and Orders against each other shew: And specially the Controversies between the Seculars and Regulars, sharply handled by Watson. in his Quodlibits, and divers others: And newly Peter Walsh, that calls himself Valesius, and Srjeants, and his Blaklows Controversies tell us more. But none more than the Jesuists and Jansenists: did we differ about half as many and weighty points as are recited in the Iesuites Morals, and their Charge against the Iansenists, we should scarce think each other fit to be Members of one Communion.