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Excerpt from A Preservative Against Popery, in Several Select Discourses Upon the Principal Heads of Controversy Between Protestants and Papists, Vol. 9: Being Written and Published by the Most Eminent Divines of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Reign of King James II
And now having so fully shewn the universal consent, and constant and perpetual practice of the Church for Communion in both kinds, and having answered all the instances by which de Meaux vainly endeavours to overthrow that I have, I hope, in some measure rformed what was the subject of de Meaux's prayer at t ning of his treatise, That not only antiquit may be il ustrated, but that truth also may become mani est and triumphant and I have hereby wholly taken away the main strength, and the very foundation of his book, for that lies in those several customs and pretended matters of fact which he brings to jus the Church's prac tice for single communion; and if these all false and mis taken, as upon examination the appear to be, then his principles upon which he founds this wrong practice, if they are not false and erroneous, yet they are useless and insignificant.
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