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…

1. I am not of the Socinians mind, that lay the Soul as in nuda potentia to sleep till the Resurrection: Nor do I believe that Souls in Paradise ⟨p. 16⟩with Christ, are more ignorant than they were in the Body. 2. And therefore I think the Doctor knoweth what he wrote, and did on Earth, and is not fallen into forgetfulness. 3. And that he knoweth into whose hands he gave those Papers, and what mind the men were of, and how they were received while he lived, if they have been so long extant as you seem to intimate, and that they were justified then. 4. And if the Saints shall judge the world, and be like, or equal to the Angels, I do not think that the concerns of this life are any more below their regard, nor more impertinent to them, than to the Angels: Nor that they live as unconcerned Strangers to Earth (when a Sun-beam can reach so far.) The Souls under the Altar, that cried how long, knew that their blood was unrevenged on Earth. 5. Nor do I believe that Christ, with whom they are, and the Angels that here attended them, are so strange to them, as to tell them nothing of the Earth. But lest you feign that I suppose them to have News-books, Gazettes, or Post-letters hence, I only advise you that justly extol his Learning, and Wisdom on Earth, not to bring him too low in Heaven, in comparison of us imprisoned Sinners, nor make him an ignoramus: And then we will but agree, that if he know of our faults here, he is against them, but if he think you are all changed since he died, there is mistake in Heaven. It followeth not that Souls in Heaven know nothing by Angels, because they know not all things: Nor that of themselves they know not what a man here may know by common reason, that the effects will be like the Cause, and his many Friends that owned his mistake on Earth, will some of them yet own them.

1. I am not of the Socinians mind, that lay the Soul as in nuda potentia to sleep till the Resurrection: Nor do I believe that Souls in Paradise ⟨p. 16⟩with Christ, are more ignorant than they were in the Body. 2. And therefore I think the Doctor knoweth what he wrote, and did on Earth, and is not fallen into forgetfulness. 3. And that he knoweth into whose hands he gave those Papers, and what mind the men were of, and how they were received while he lived, if they have been so long extant as you seem to intimate, and that they were justifyed then. 4. And if the Saints shall judge the world, and be like, or equal to the Angels, I do not think that the concerns of this life are any more below their regard, nor more impertinent to them, than to the Angels: Nor that they live as unconcerned Strangers to Earth (when a Sun-beam can reach so far.) The Souls under the Altar, that cryed how long, knew that their blood was unrevenged on Earth. 5. Nor do I believe that Christ, with whom they are, and the Angels that here attended them, are so strange to them, as to tell them nothing of the Earth. But lest you feign that I suppose them to have News-books, Gazetts, or Post-letters hence, I only advise you that justly extol his Learning, and Wisdom on Earth, not to bring him too low in Heaven, in comparison of us imprisoned Sinners, nor make him an ignoramus: And then we will but agree, that if he know of our faults here, he is against them, but if he think you are all changed since he died, there is mistake in Heaven. It followeth not that Souls in Heaven know nothing by Angels, because they know not all things: Nor that of themselves they know not what a man here may know by common reason, that the effects will be like the Cause, and his many Friends that owned his mistake on Earth, will some of them yet own them.