A25467:1183
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Herein we agree with our Adversaries, namely, that all the Privileges of the Church, all the Right and Title of men thereunto, depend wholly on their due Relation to the Head of it, according to the distinct Considerations of it, be that Head who, or what it will, that which is not united unto the Head, which depends not on it, which is separated from it, belongs not to the Church.
This Head of the Church is Christ Jesus alone; for the Church is but one, although on various considerations it be likened unto two sorts of Bodies. The Catholic Church is considered either as believing, or as professing; but the Believing Church is not one, and the professing another. If you suppose another Catholic Church, besides this one, whoso will may be the Head of it, we are not concerned therein; but unto this Church Christ is the only Head. He only answers all the Properties and Ends of such an Head to the Church: This the Scripture doth so positively and frequently affirm, without the least intimation either directly or by consequence of any other Head, that it is wonderful how the imagination of it should befall the Minds of any, who thought it not meet at the same time to cast away their Bibles.
This Head of the Church is Christ Jesus alone; for the Church is but one, although on various considerations it be likened unto two sorts of Bodies. The Catholick Church is considered either as believing, or as professing; but the Believing Church is not one, and the professing another. If you suppose another Catholick Church, besides this one, whoso will may be the Head of it, we are not concerned therein; but unto this Church Christ is the only Head. He only answers all the Properties and Ends of such an Head to the Church: This the Scripture doth so positively and frequently affirm, without the least intimation either directly or by consequence of any other Head, that it is wonderful how the imagination of it should befall the Minds of any, who thought it not meet at the same time to cast away their Bibles.