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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.
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.
Sir, You add, p. 39. [And if (as you allow) the practical determination depends on the circumstances of the Persons, you reduce the Controversy to a far narrower room, than was by most supposed: And every one being best capable of understanding his own circumstances, it will not bear great heat or importunity from another.]
But whence came those wrong Suppositions of the most? If after 20 years Communion in the Parish Churches, I venture on the Censorious so far as to give my Reasons for my own Practice, and defend those Reasons, and that Practice against contrary Writings, and such wise Men as you are so reconcilable, and see how narrow the Controversy is, whence comes it that most think it to be what it is not, against such frequent ⟨p. 4⟩plain expressions? You and I may conjecture at the Cause.