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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 58: Whether Communion with so Faulty a Church be Lawful.
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M. So then you are come to what I hold, I profess that if I see or hear any such Blasphemy, Idolatry, Heresy, or Malignity, as renders the Worship abhorred of God, I will abhor it and avoid it.
L. Is none of all that such which you have described?
M. Nothing in the ordinary Lords-Day Worship, which the Congregation must join in: Yea I dare not say that their By-offices, viz. Baptism it self, notwithstanding their kind of Godfathers and Crossing, doth frustrate the Sacrament to the capable. And the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is very Piously Administered in the words of the Liturgy: And if they force men thither or admit them that are unfit, that maketh not the words of the Liturgy unfit for the Faithful, and their faults in Discipline are none of mine.
M. Nothing in the ordinary Lords-Day Worship, which the Congregation must join in: Yea I dare not say that their By-offices, viz. Baptism it self, notwithstanding their kind of Godfathers and Crossing, doth frustrate the Sacrament to the capable. And the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is very Piously Administred in the words of the Liturgy: And if they force men thither or admit them that are unfit, that maketh not the words of the Liturgy unfit for the Faithful, and their faults in Discipline are none of mine.