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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.
2. If we shall omit all duty that men will abuse, we shall do none, or next to none. Repentance is most honourable▪ except Innocency: And they would reproach men less, if they more confessed their sin themselves: And a true Confession is a true description of the Case, and shameth them that make it worse then it is, or lay the fault of the Guilty on the Innocent.
2. If we shall omit all duty that men will abuse, we shall do none, or next to none. Repentance is most honourable▪ except Innocency: And they would reproach men less, if they more confest their sin themselves: And a true Confession is a true description of the Case, and shameth them that make it worse then it is, or lay the fault of the Guilty on the Innocent.
3. What Heresy or sin almost is not controverted? Satan will make a Controversy of all, if that shall serve: Arianism is a sad instance, and Socinianism, which is much worse, and Popery is more disputed for than they all.
3. What Heresy or sin almost is not controverted? Satan will make a Controversy of all, if that shall serve: Arrianism is a sad instance, and Socinianism, which is much worse, and Popery is more disputed for than they all.
4. God hateth the Proud, and will abase them, and pardoneth none but the Penitent, and he that sinfully saveth his Credit, shall most lose it: Repentance is a great, hard, necessary work, we can easily call other men to repent.