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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
Chapter 14: Point XI. Of rejecting from Communion all that dare not kneel in the act of Receiving.
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L. I Hear that you receive the Eucharist Kneeling your self, and take it for lawful: what then have you against the Canon or Liturgy for this?
M. I am my self for the lawfulness of Organs, Rails, and Coming up to them, and for the lawfulness of Kneeling when we sing Psalms, or read the Scripture, or hear the Preacher. But I am not for the lawfulness of hanging or damning men that herein are not of my mind: Nor for turning unnecessary things, because they are lawful into conditions, sine quibus non, of Church Communion, and Engines for Satan to divide Christ's Flock by, and persecute men for fearing sin. Paul was for the lawfulness of using, or not using, the meats and days mentioned Rom. 14. 1, 2. But he was not for either judging or despising one another about them, much less for casting men from the Church and Heaven for them; nor for saying, except ye be Circumcised ye cannot be saved.
M. I am my self for the lawfulness of Organs, Railes, and Coming up to them, and for the lawfulness of Kneeling when we sing Psalms, or read the Scripture, or hear the Preacher. But I am not for the lawfulness of hanging or damning men that herein are not of my mind: Nor for turning unnecessary things, because they are lawful into conditions, sine quibus non, of Church Communion, and Engines for Satan to divide Christ's Flock by, and persecute men for fearing sin. Paul was for the lawfulness of using, or not using, the meats and days mentioned Rom. 14. 1, 2. But he was not for either judging or despising one another about them, much less for casting men from the Church and Heaven for them; nor for saying, except ye be Circumcised ye cannot be saved.