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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.
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.
17. You defend not that [ This Practice (joyning in the Lyturgy) 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 Lyturgy, 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 justifyed, which he suffereth for, lest he be made the only Cause.
18. You defend not that [All the Promises, Aids of the Holy Spirit, with respect to the Prayer of the Church, whether as to the matter of them, or ability—or the manner—are rejected and excluded by this Form of Worship.]—