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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.
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.
Your Conclusion is a pious Profession of that Love, and the main Principles of that Concord for which I write.
10. You wisely leave the Vindication of the Doctors words, when it cometh to the case which I oppose him in: As [That neither God, nor good men will allow of, judging our Profession and Practice by any reserves of our own;] when I have proved that our reserves against owning mixtures of evil, are necessary in all Communion.