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Vindication of the Church of England in Her Rites and Ceremonies

Published: 1682
Length: 8,020 words
Reading: 30 min
Divisions: 24

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Mr. Baxter's vindication of the Church of England in her rites and ceremonies, discipline, and church-orders as faithfully taken out of his own writings, without either false citation, or fraudulent alteration : to which is prefixed his epistle to the non-conformists, being a just and true abstract of his book entituled, A defence of the principles of love.

London Printed for Walter Kettilby ... 1682.

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To the reader
LetterMr. BAXTER's EPISTLE TO THE Non-Conformiſts, Being a juſt and true Abſtract of his Defence of the…
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Part1. Standing up at the Creed and the Antiphones.
Part2. Epiſcopal Confirmation.
Part3. Church-Muſick by Organs, or ſuch like Inſtruments.

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Part5. The Antiphones, or the Peoples bearing a Part with the Miniſter in Divine Service.
Part6. Bowing at the Name of JESUS.
Part7. It is certain from God's Word, that the Child ſo Baptized, dying before it commit actual ſin, is…
Part8. Kneeling at the Sacrament.
Part9. Epiſcopacy is Apoſtolical, and of Divine Inſtitution.
Part10. The Oath of Prieſts and Deacons for Canonical Obedience to their Dioceſan.
Part11. The Surplice.
Part12. The Croſs at Baptiſm.
Part13. Reordination.
Part14. Renouncing the Covenant.
Part15. The defects and faults of the Liturgy.
Part16. The Errour of demanding a Scripture-text, or rule, for Ceremonies and Circumſtances of Gods Worſhip.
Part17. The Church of England not guilty of any kind of Falſe-worſhip.
Part18. A general Vindication of the Liturgy and Ceremonies.
Part19. The ſoundneſs of the Doctrine of the Church of England.

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