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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.
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.
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.
L. But Faults known before hand become mine if I join with such a faulty Worship.
M. Then you must join with none on Earth: You know before hand your own faults, that you will be guilty of in prayer: Must you therefore forbear to pray? Suppose I have a teacher that is an Anabaptist, an Antinomian, or hath some known tolerable Error, which I know before hand he holds, and useth to vend in his Praying and Preaching. Is it unlawful to join with such? Then Presbyterians, Independents, and all that differ in judgment, must still run away from one another.
M. Then you must join with none on Earth: You know before hand your own faults, that you will be guilty of in prayer: Must you therefore forbear to pray? Suppose I have a teacher that is an Anabaptist, an Antinomian, or hath some known tolerable Errour, which I know before hand he holds, and useth to vend in his Praying and Preaching. Is it unlawful to join with such? Then Presbyterians, Independants, and all that differ in judgment, must still run away from one another.