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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.
16. You defend not that [Hence followed a total neglect of all the Spirits Gifts in the said Administration—Nor that [This produced all the Enmity—of the said work of the Spirit, which the world is now filled withal—that it ariseth from hence alone. Nor that the Worship Treated about, consists wholly in the Institutions, and on the Authority of Men, and therefore is false Worship—and to renounce the Kingly Office of Christ in the Church.
Nor that [It belongs to the faithfulness of Christ to appoint and command all things in the Church that belong to the Worship of God—in the Forms and Modes of them—(Doth this speak only of the English Liturgy.)—
Nor that [It belongs to the faithfulness of Christ to appoint and command all things in the Church that belong to the Worship of God—in the Forms and Modes of them—(Doth this speak only of the English Lyturgy.)—
Nor that liberty to use gifts in Prayer and Preaching, is ridiculously pretended, & they are excluded in all the solemn Worship of the Church.
17. You defend not that [ This Practice (joining in the Liturgy) condemns the suffering Saints of the present Age, renders them false Witnesses of God, and the only blameable cause of their own sufferings.] And if all the Nonconformists that 1660. gave their Testimony for a Reformed Liturgy, were not Saints, at least they have been Sufferers: And doth not this as much make them false Witnesses? And if both you and we were mistaken, I am confident you will not justify all that we suffer by, and say we are the only blameable Cause? As if every such mistake were worthy of all the punishment undergone? Nor will you think that every good Mans Opinion must be justified, which he suffereth for, lest he be made the only Cause.