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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.
what distinctive Garments Pastors shall use. By what signs of consent and obligation Men vow, and swear, whether by putting the hand under the Thigh, lifting it up, subscribing, laying it on the Book, kissing the Book, &c. what Catechisms to use, with many more such. God hath commanded men to choose such things as these by the Rules of Edification, Love, Peace, Concord, Order, Decency, winning those without, &c. XV. These may be called Worship in a sense subservient to Gods Ordinances of Worship (as we Worship Men, by putting off the Hat, kneeling, bowing, &c:) But if any will not call it Worship, they must not call it false Worship, nor pretend that the Controversy is any more than about the bare name. XVI. They that feign such things as these to be sinful additions, and an invading of Christs Office, and denying his faithfulness, &c. condemn the Scripture that commandeth such determinations, and contradict the Law of Nature, and the practice of all Churches on Earth, and would exterminate all Gods Worship, which cannot be performed without some such determinations. ⟨p. 12⟩XVII. As God hath not tied us to words in Prayer or Preaching (though he have recorded many forms in Scripture) but left all to choose what words, time and circumstances make fit (by Book, or without,) so the conveniences, and inconveniences both of set forms, and of free speaking, are on each part so great and undeniable, that we have no cause to censure that Church which useth both; that is, which agreeth on a set form, to show what the Church professeth to own, if the Minister should blutter out any Error or Undecency, and yet not restrain Ministers from the due use of free speech. XVIII. It is a great sin out of a fond Conceit of the excellency of either way, above it's due value, to think & speak with unjust vilifying of the other way, when God hath tied us to neither alone: It is contrary to knowledge, love, peace, and concord, out of a self-conceitedness, peevishness, or false prejudice received from others, to think, and speak worse of other mens words in Prayer, than they deserve: and to frighten the ignorant from lawful Communion, by calling that sin, or false Worship, that is not so. XIX.
what distinctive Garments Pastors shall use. By what signs of consent and obligation Men vow, and swear, whether by putting the hand under the Thigh, lifting it up, subscribing, laying it on the Book, kissing the Book, &c. what Catechisms to use, with many more such. God hath commanded men to choose such things as these by the Rules of Edification, Love, Peace, Concord, Order, Decency, winning those without, &c. XV. These may be called Worship in a sense subservient to Gods Ordinances of Worship (as we Worship Men, by putting off the Hat, kneeling, bowing, &c:) But if any will not call it Worship, they must not call it false Worship, nor pretend that the Controversy is any more than about the bare name. XVI. They that feign such things as these to be sinful additions, and an invading of Christs Office, and denying his faithfulness, &c. condemn the Scripture that commandeth such determinations, and contradict the Law of Nature, and the practice of all Churches on Earth, and would exterminate all Gods Worship, which cannot be performed without some such determinations.