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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.
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 S•rjeants, 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.
And naming Opponents is oft necessary to make the Reader know what Books we write against for distinction sake.
2. And there is yet another great cause of naming faulty men both (otherwise) godly and heretical. The Duty of a Public or National Repentance oft requireth the mention of public sins and sinners; (specially if they be our own) God long forbeareth the public National sins of Ancestors, to see if Posterity, (who are the same Nation, though not the same Persons) will prevent his Judgments by Repentance: In which case they must confess their own, and their Fore Fathers sins. This was the due practice of the Church of Old, as