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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.
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.
III. Having told you my judgment, I will as this worthy Brother adviseth, yet further review my own actions.
I am one of those that have formerly imitated Austin in some Confessions, and Retractations; but I cannot make every scornful expectants Opinion my measure, nor retract all that every extream'd Opposer, or Dissenter doth dislike. And I am one that long, and very dearly endeavoured to have prevented those Overturnings, which I bewail: and at that time I thought them a sin so great, as I will not now describe, and took in the prognostic of their Consequents, in which I have only been thus far mistaken, that Gods wonderful mercy hath hitherto made them much easier then I expected: I mentioned them most openly and plainly then, to convince the Guilty, and save the Tempted; and I have oft since made some mention of them, not to call ⟨p. 39⟩the dead to Repentance, but the Societies in their humiliations, and the Nation, and to preserve the living from the guilt of participation, and imitation. But I find that some much mistake me, and think that all the Persons that I have named, I mention as intolerable, or make them worse than they are, and equal the better with the worse, yea, make the Welsh Itinerants worse then ignorant, vicious, mere readers. All this is far from my words and thoughts.
I am one of those that have formerly imitated Austin in some Confessions, and Retractations; but I cannot make every scornful expectants Opinion my measure, nor retract all that every extream'd Opposer, or Dissenter doth dislike. And I am one that long, and very dearly endeavoured to have prevented those Overturnings, which I bewail: and at that time I thought them a sin so great, as I will not now describe, and took in the prognostick of their Consequents, in which I have only been thus far mistaken, that Gods wonderful mercy hath hitherto made them much easier then I expected: I mentioned them most openly and plainly then, to convince the Guilty, and save the Tempted; and I have oft since made some mention of them, not to call