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The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon…
The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon a scandalous pamphlet entitled, A proposition for the safety and happiness of the king and kingdom : in a letter to a gentleman of the House of Commons.The judgment of Mr. Baxter concerning ceremonies and conformity with a short reflection upon a scandalous pamphlet intituled, A proposition for the safety and happiness of the king and kingdom : in a letter to a gentleman of the House of Commons.
London: printed for R. Jenaway sic, 1667
THE JUDGMENT OF Mr. BAXTER CONCERNING CEREMONIES AND CONFORMITY. › Of Altars, and Rails.
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Of Altars, and Rails.
And for the next Ceremony, the Name and form of an Altar; no doubt it is a thing indifferent, whether the 1Table stand this way, or that way: and the Primitive Churches used commonly the names of Sacrifice, and Altar, and Priest, and I think, lawfully: for my part I shall not be he that shall condemn them.
- 1Ibid.
I conceive that the dislike of these things in England 1(the form and name of an Altar, and the Rails about it) was not as if they were simply evil.
- 1Ibid.
Whether we shall receive the Lords Supper at a Table, or in our seats; and whether the Table shall be of