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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
Appendix › Section 14: 14. Of good works particularly, of fasting.
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.
13. That a general intention of worshipping God is sufficient when they pray, though they neither understand nor mark what they say.
14. They teach their Disciples to pray in an unknown tongue, and so without faith, without understanding, without feeling like Parrots.
15. They teach them to number their prayers upon certain Beads, and to pay God, as it were a task of numbered prayers.
15. They teach them to number their prayers upon certain Beads, and to pay God, as it were a task of numbred prayers.
16. In which also they teach them mightily to tautologize, and to hope they shall be heard for their much speaking.