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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.
6. Pag. 32. You say [ Doth he say a word of owning Parish Churches, and Worship. ] Ans. If you or he say nothing against these, we shall leave the Diocesan case to others: But if you be the man that I have lately privately written to, I doubt not but I have proved to you, that Parish Churches that have good Ministers, are true particular Churches, and those Ministers true Pastors, and that any Bishops holding the contrary, doth not disprove it.
7. When you recite my words, describing the Cause I plead, viz. [I have written over and over, that I persuade no man either to, or from a public Church, till I know his Circumstances; And that I doubt not but it is one mans duty, and another mans sin.] You add [I believe dear Sir, that though this concession may displease those who may best bear it, it may reconcile you to most of those that are called Dissenters.]
7. When you recite my words, describing the Cause I plead, viz. [I have written over and over, that I persuade no man either to, or from a publick Church, till I know his Circumstances; And that I doubt not but it is one mans duty, and another mans sin.] You add [I believe dear Sir, that though this concession may displease those who may best bear it, it may reconcile you to most of those that are called Dissenters.]
If so, those Dissenters it seems by you do not much differ from me: But I think ten to one of the people accounted commonly Dissenters through England, are of my mind, and are for Parish-Worship rather than either none or worse. But by Dissenters, I suppose you mean those of the Doctors mind, or your own: And if so, I thank you for your own Charity and Reconciliation: But if you did not know them better than I, I should doubt that your said Friends are not altogether so reconcilable.
If so, those Dissenters it seems by you do not much differ from me: But I think ten to one of the people accounted commonly Dissenters through England, are of my mind, and are for Parish-Worship rather than either none or worse. But by Dissenters, I suppose you mean those of the Doctors mind, or your own: And if so, I thank you for your own Charity and Reconciliation: But if you did not know them better than I, I should doubt that your said Friends are not altogether so reconcileable.