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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.
I can but be sorry (for I am not so presumptuous as to think to change your Judgment) if the contrary supposition be [your best Weapon] against the Popish Superstition of praying to Saints: For all this I will hope that you do not pray to Dr. O. for so much as you believe he knoweth, nor yet feign him stark ignorant for fear of praying to him? Do you think he hath forgotten the •ase of England? Or will you pray to him to intercede for it.
II. My second supposed Error is, that the Saints in Heaven have any displeasure: And this is said to be [a Contradiction to the generally received Opinion of all that you have met with.] I doubt not but your Acquaintance is large, but I perceive it is not with all sorts of men. I am sorry they should generally deny so great and clear a truth.
II. My second supposed Errour is, that the Saints in Heaven have any displeasure: And this is said to be [a Contradiction to the generally received Opinion of all that you have met with.] I doubt not but your Acquaintance is large, but I perceive it is not with all sorts of men. I am sorry they should generally deny so great and clear a truth.
1. Let us examine the Controversy, as of the Matter, and 2. As of the Name [Displeasure.] 1. Complacence is the first act of the will upon Good as Good, before it come to Election of Compared Goods, (which is usually de Mediis:) Displicence is its contrary, and its object is Evil as Evil. One is called Volition, or Willing, the other Nolition, or Nilling. As Pleasedness, and Displeasedness are in the Passions, and signify Joy and Trouble, we have nothing here to do with them, (having expressly excluded sorrow) but as they are in the Will. I thought till ⟨p. 17⟩