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Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…
Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one religion by Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R. W. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Tyton, 1660
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.
3. We have an ancient too-imperfect version of the Psalms, which we sing in the Congregations; & in the judgment of all Divines that ever I spoke with about it (of what ⟨p. 21⟩side soever) it is our duty to use a better Version, and not to perform so excellent a part of the public Worship, so lamely, and with so many blemishes. And if you ask the Ministers why they do not unanimously agree on a Reformed corrected Version, most of them will tell you, that their people will not bear it, but proudly and turbulently reproach them, as if they were changing the Word of God.
3. We have an ancien• too-imperfect version of the Psalms, which we sing in the Congregations; & in the judgment of all Divines that ever I spoke with about it (of what ⟨p. 21⟩side soever) it is our duty to use a better Version, and not to perform so excellent a part of the publick Worship, so lamely, and with so many blemishes. And if you ask the Ministers why they do not unanimously agree on a Reformed corrected Version, most of them will tell you, that their people will not bear it, but proudly and turbulently reproach them, as if they were changing the Word of God.
4. In many places the Sacrament of Baptism is oftener used in private houses, then in the public Assemblies; and if we ask the reason of so great a disorder, the Ministers will tell us that it is the unruliness and ⟨p. 22⟩wilfulness of the people, that proudly set themselves above their Guides, and instead of obeying them, must rule them, and have their humours and conceits fulfilled, even in the holy things of God, or else they will revile the Pastors, and make divisions in the Church: And this is done by them that in other cases do seem sufficiently to reverence the place of public Assembly as the house of God, and that speak against private meetings, though but for prayer, repeating Sermons, or singing to the praise of God, while yet themselves are wilfully bent for such private meetings as are set up in opposition to the public, and that