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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.
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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 Psal. 78. & 107. and many other show; and the prayers of Ezra, Daniel, and others: they named many, and bewailed more of their National and Fore Fathers sins▪ and if they do not, Christ will name them for them, as he did the blood shed from Abel's till Zacharias, and will revenge all together on the Impenitent Generation Matth. 23. It was not to call dead men to Repentance, that all the forementioned faults of good and bad men are recorded in the Scripture: But it is partly for the exercise of National Repentance, and partly for a warning to the living, that good mens names tempt them not to sin▪ Yea that shaming them is a mercy to us all to this day, is evident, in that where God recordeth any sin, without laying some reproach upon it, Satan maketh a snare of it, to persuade us it is no sin. What abundance have been emboldened to Lie, because the Midwives in Egypt, and Davids Lies are recorded without adjoined reproof. Polygamy is pleaded for as lawful by that reason; and the Jews did so by Divorce; and some by drinking to excess, or overthrow of reason: All of us take it for a duty to bewail the Nations resistance of Reformation, and cruelty to the Martyrs in Q. Mary's days, and such like as part of our National Humiliation.
2. And there is yet another great cause of naming faulty men both (otherwise) godly and heretical. The Duty of a Publick or National Repentance oft requireth the mention of publick sins and sinners; (specially if they be our own) God long forbeareth the publick National sins of Ancestors, to see if Posterity, (who are the same Na•ion, 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