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Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…
Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
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.
V. The Union of the Church is of divers degrees. 1. The formal Union of the Head and Body, which maketh it essentially the [Christian Church.] 2. The Union of the parts among themselves as Christian, which maketh them a Body capable of Union with the Head. 3. The Union of the parts as unequal Organized, the Official with the rest, which maketh it an Organized Body, fit for its special use and welfare. 4. Union in integrity of parts, which maketh it an entire Body. 5. Union in due temperament and Qualities, which maketh it a healthful Body. 6. Unity in Common Accidents, which make it a Comely Beautiful Body joined with the rest. But, 7. Union in mutable Accidents is unnecessary and impossible.
V. The Union of the Church is of divers degrees. 1. The formal Union of the Head and Body, which maketh it essentially the [Christian Church.] 2. The Vnion of the parts among themselves as Christian, which maketh them a Body capable of Union with the Head. 3. The Union of the parts as unequal Organized, the Official with the rest, which maketh it an Organized Body, fit for its special use and welfare. 4. Union in integrity of parts, which maketh it an intire Body. 5. Union in due temperament and Qualities, which maketh it a healthful Body. 6. Unity in Common Accidents, which make it a Comely Beautiful Body joined with the rest. But, 7. Union in mutable Accidents is unnecessary and impossible.
VI. These several degrees of Union are found in Bodies natural and Politic. 1. The Union of Soul and Body makes a man, and an Embryo before it be organized. 2. The Union of the Body maketh it capable of the Souls further Operation. 3. The Union of the Organical, chief parts, (as Heart, Lungs, &c.) to the rest make it a true humane Body completed to the nutriment and action of Life▪ 4. That it have Hands and Fingers, Feet and Toes, and all integral parts, makes it an entire Body. 5. The due site, temperament and qualities of each part make it a sound Body. 6. Comely colour, hair, action, going, speech, &c. make it a comely Body. 7. To have all parts of equal quantity and office, would make it uncomely: And to have the same hair, colour, &c. is unnecessary at all.