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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
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.
Ans. God is the Master of his Worship: I do what he bids me, tho man contradict it: If God bid me hear and believe the Scripture, and man say, hear also, and believe the Apocrypha, I will openly profess I obey God, and you, no further than you contradict not God: Rather than not hear the Scripture, I will hear also the Apocrypha, but not believe it to be Gods Word. But if they bid me also hear the Alcoran, I will withdraw. 2. It is not the Conjunction, but the kind of the thing joined that maketh it unlawful: An honest weak man, an Antinomian, ⟨p. 3⟩an Anabaptist, a Presbyterian, or whoever you dissent from in tolerable cases, may mix his Opinion, and faulty expressions and methods, with his Prayer and Sermon, as intimately as evil is mixed in the Mass, and yet you will not refuse Communion with him: It is lawful to drink beer that hath bad water mixed, rather than none, but not to drink that which hath poison equally mixed.
Ans. God is the Master of his Worship: I do what he bids me, tho man contradict it: If God bid me hear and believe the Scripture, and man say, hear also, and believe the Apocrypha, I will openly profess I obey God, and you, no further than you contradict not God: Rather than not hear the Scripture, I will hear also the Apocrypha, but not believe it to be Gods Word. But if they bid me also hear the Alcoran, I will withdraw. 2. It is not the Conjunction, but the kind of the thing joyned that maketh it unlawful: An honest weak man, an Antinomian, ⟨p. 3⟩an Anabaptist, a Presbyterian, or whoever you dissent from in tolerable cases, may mix his Opinion, and faulty expressions and methods, with his Prayer and Sermon, as intimately as evil is mixt in the Mass, and yet you will not refuse Communion with him: It is lawful to drink beer that hath bad water mixt, rather than none, but not to drink that which hath poyson equally mixt.
To p. 29. I think if a Turk pray against Idolatry, Murder, &c. that Prayer is materially good: But as to Goodness from a Holy Principle, no Hypocrites is good. The insufficiency of my answer you no way manifest, till you prove that I must join with all that is in public Worship, or with none.