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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.
§. 1. Page 48, 49. He resolveth his third Case: [Whether it be lawful to Communicate with two distinct and separate Churches] negatively, and saith, [It is contrary to all the Principles of Church Communion, as any thing can possibly be; it is to be contrary to our selves, it is Communicating with Schism: That the Presbyterian and Independent Churches have made an actual separation from the Church of England he hath evidently proved;—and they are Schismatics, and to communicate with them is to partake in their Schism; and if Schism be a great sin, and that which will damn us as soon as Adultery and Murder, then it must needs be a dangerous thing to communicate with Schismatics. And p. 42. There cannot be two distinct Churches in one place, one for occasional, and another for constant Communion, without Schism.]
§. 1. PAge 48, 49. He resolveth his third Case: [Whether it be lawful to Communicate with two distinct and separate Churches] negatively, and saith, [It is contrary to all the Principles of Church Communion, as any thing can possibly be; it is to be contrary to our selves, it is Communicating with Schism: That the Presbyterian and Independent Churches have made an actual separation from the Church of England he hath evidently proved;—and they are Schismaticks, and to communicate with them is to partake in their Schism; and if Schism be a great sin, and that which will damn us as soon as Adultery and Murther, then it must needs be a dangerous thing to communicate with Schismaticks. And p. 42. There cannot be two distinct Churches in one place, one for occasional, and another for constant Communion, without Schism.]
Ans. To save those that are willing from the Poison of these Schismatical Doctrines, lapped up in confusion by men that abhor distinction, or understand not what they say; I will first lay down that truth that he sights against, with convincing evidence, and then show you the mischief of his false Doctrine and Application.
Ans. To save those that are willing from the Poyson of these Schismatical Doctrines, lapt up in confusion by men that abhor distinction, or understand not what they say; I will first lay down that truth that he sights against, with convincing evidence, and then shew you the mischief of his false Doctrine and Application.