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The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…
The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1683
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.
§ 18. P. 20. Saith he [There is no other Rule of Catholic Communion for ⟨p. 17⟩Private Christians, but to communicate in all Religious Offices and all Acts of Government and Discipline with Christians those with whom they li•e.
§ 18. P. 20. Saith he [There is no other Rule of Catholick Communion for ⟨p. 17⟩Private Christians, but to communicatee in all Religious Offices and all Acts of Government and Discipline with Christians those with whom they li•e.
A. 1. Elsewhere you added [sound and Orthodox:] Else they that live with Arians, Socinians, Papists (in Spain, France, Italy, &c.) are bound to communicate with them in all Religious Offices and obey them. 2. This concludeth, that where Presbytery or Independency is the way of the place where we live, all must thus communicate and obey. The King and Custom then may make any way to become our Duty. 3. If you tell us that it's only with the Sound and Orthodox, you were as good say nothing, unless you tell us who must judge that, whether the People themselves, or who for them. 4. But if this be the only rule for private Christians, what shall they do, e. g. in Aethiopa, Egypt, Syria, and many other Countries where the Churches are such as General Councils and other Churches judge Heretics or Schismatics? And what shall they do, when at Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, &c. one party is uppermost (by the Judgment of Councils and Prince) one Year, and another contrary party the next. And what shall they do where the Prince equally tolerateth both, and it's hard to know which is the more numerous? as in Zeno's and Anastasius Reign, &c. And what shall they do when many Churches in one City are of divers Tongues, as well as Customs? Have the Greeks, French and Dutch in London no rule of Catholic Communion but communicating in all Office; with the English, and obeying all your Bishops Courts?