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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.
That the Primitive Churches had some Responsible Forms (which our Psalms in Metre, and Tune, do now supply without offence or disorder) and that it is the declining of Zeal, and the badness of men, that is become their disgrace, and not the forms; for the use of men of both extremes (passing by Cyprian's Sursum Corda) I shall recite an evidence out of Chrysostom, on 1 Cor. 14. pag. 652. When we begin to say—the People answer [with thy Spirit,] showing that they so spake of old; not moved by their own Wisdoms, but by the Spirit. But I speak not now of my self: But the Church is now like a Woman, which is fallen from her ancient prosperity; and in many places retaineth only the Symbols (or tokens) of that ancient felicity; and showeth only the Cases (or Boxes) and Cabinets (or Tills) of her Jewels (or Ornaments,) but is deprived of her Riches. The Church is now like such a Woman. And I speak not this only as to (her loss of) gifts; (for if this were all, the matter were the less,) but also as to Life and Virtue. When in the fourth Century the old Custom is thus reported, it must be very ancient: And this showeth that Zeal then caused the peoples Responses; And were they now used by good men with the like holy Zeal, they would be less scrupled.
THat the Primitive Churches had some Responsal Forms (which our Psalms in Meeter, and Tune, do now supply without offence or disorder) and that it is the declining of Zeal, and the badness of men, that is become their disgrace, and not the forms; for the use of men of both extreams (passing by Cyprians Sursum Corda) I shall recite an evidence out of Chrysostom, on 1 Cor. 14. pag. 652. When we begin to say—the People answer [with thy Spirit,] shewing that they so spake of old; not moved by their own Wisdoms, but by the Spirit. But I speak not now of my self: But the Church is now like a Woman, which is fallen from her ancient prosperity; and in many places retaineth only the Symbols (or tokens) of that ancient felicity; and sheweth only the Cases (or Boxes) and Cabinets (or Tills) of her Iewels (or Ornaments,) but is deprived of her Riches. The Church is now like such a Woman. And I speak not this only as to (her loss of) gifts; (for if this were all, the matter were the less,) but also as to Life and Virtue. When in the fourth Century the old Custom is thus reported, it must be very ancient: And this sheweth that Zeal then caused the peoples Responses; And were they now used by good men with the like holy Zeal, they would be less scrupled.