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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.
8. Or how can they be everlastingly thankful to Christ for saving them from it.
9. What a change must they impute to Christ that came so low, and suffered as in a sort forsaken, to destroy the works of the Devil, and now hath not so much as the least displeasedness with sin.
10. Then Christ and Saints there are no more displeased at Persecution, Profaneness, Murder, Adultery, then at Piety and Love.
10. Then Christ and Saints there are no more displeased at Persecution, Prophaneness, Murder, Adultery, then at Piety and Love.
11. Then it no more displeaseth Souls there, that they here sinned, then that they did well: Pauls mind is much changed then about his Persecution. The best is, though you and yours are offended with me, it is not displeasing to Dr. O. if he know it. But if your reason be, because that all displeasedness hath some suffering of the mind, or trouble, 1. As to my meaning you know I excluded sorrow. 2. And it is not true that you suppose. Pure Displicency of the will in God, and the blessed, hath no trouble: It is not exercised in a body that hath a Heart, or Head troubled by commotion of the Blood and Spirits, nor yet in an imperfect Soul that hath hurting passions. It is the pure perfection of the will; and nothing but its Aversation from sin; and contrary to Love: Love and Hatred are names that may well here be used, but Complacence, and Displicence being the same, sound as less to signify Passion. And if there be Passion in Heaven, (which you cannot disprove) it might be without diminution of felicity.