A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

Shall they then forgo the Principle, That the Church is to have such an Head and Supreme Ruler? That must not be done, but be sacredly retained; not only because to deny it in general, is to renounce the Gospel; but because they had found out a way to turn it unto their own advantage; they would therefore make an Image of Christ, as this Head of the Church, to possess the Place, and act all the Powers of such an Head; for the Church, they say is visible, and must have a visible Head, as though the Catholic Church, as such, were any other way visible, but as the Head of it is, that is, by Faith. That there must be an Head and Centre of Union, wherein all the Members of the Church may agree and be united, notwithstanding all their distinct Capacities and Circumstances, and how this should be Christ himself, they know not; that without a Supreme Head present in the Church, to compose all Differences, and determine all Controversies, even those concerning himself, which they vainly pretend unto, they expressly affirm, that there was never a Society so foolishly ordered as that of the Church. And ⟨p. 237⟩hereon they conclude the Insufficiency of Christ to be this f•le Head of the Church, another they must have for these Ends.

Shall they then forgo the Principle, That the Church is to have such an Head and Supream Ruler? That must not be done, but be sacredly retained; not only because to deny it in general, is to renounce the Gospel; but because they had found out a way to turn it unto their own advantage; they would therefore make an Image of Christ, as this Head of the Church, to possess the Place, and act all the Powers of such an Head; for the Church, they say is visible, and must have a visible Head, as though the Catholick Church, as such, were any other way visible, but as the Head of it is, that is, by Faith. That there must be an Head and Center of Union, wherein all the Members of the Church may agree and be united, notwithstanding all their distinct Capacities and Circumstances, and how this should be Christ himself, they know not; that without a Supream Head present in the Church, to compose all Differences, and determine all Controversies, even those concerning himself, which they vainly pretend unto, they expresly affirm, that there was never a Society so foolishly ordered as that of the Church. And ⟨p. 237⟩