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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.
1. I confess I think that the name of Christ and Religion, and its Honour is to be preferred before all mens: And I had many years ago heard a Conformable Preacher before a very honourable, and learned Auditory, charge the Nonconformists with holding that [A thing lawful in itself, in Gods Worship, becometh unlawful, if it be commanded by the Magistrate. And that Forms and Liturgies were unlawful, because they be not made in Scripture by Christ.] And I have read too many such Charges: And I always answered that we were slandered.
2. I quickly heard that the Manuscript was commonly spread, and he that brought it me, said, he believed a thousand were confirmed by it against going to the Parish Churches and Liturgy.
2. I quickly heard that the Manuscript was commonly spread, and he that brought it me, said, he believed a thousand were confirmed by it against going to the Parish Churches and Lyturgy.
3. Several of my Friends and Acquaintance had got it, and told me they thought it unanswerable. And all named the Doctor as the Author.
4. I was suddenly told of a very able Conformist that was going to answer it, and I feared he would lay it on us all.