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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.
The Contents of the Third Part. Dr. Stillingfleet's Defender tried. The general Character of his Book. p. 1, &c. He placeth not Communion in any transient Acts, but a fixed permanent State. 4. Whether Communion and the Church be the same? 5. Have all the Churches the same Right and Obligation to Communicate with each other? 5. ⟨image 4⟩His Supposition of the World being one Family, &c. p. 7. His Accusation of Confusion, Mistaking, &c. examined. 8, 9. Whether Union and Communion be all one, and this be in no transient Acts? 9, 10. To his Question, What makes the Church One? 10, 11, 12. Whether that which makes it a Church, make it not One? 13. His Philosophy opened (for his Pupils) p. 14. when he dare not confute the Boys common Notions of Physics, he stands wondering at them, p. 14. As that the Soul is principium motus to the Body. That Union is to Soul and Body, like the Copula in a Proposition. 15. Whether Christ cannot be to the Church a constitutive Form, as the Soul is to the Body, because he is it's Head? and whether Scripture ascribe not to him such Soul-Relations, as well as to be Head? 15. His putid intimation that I write for another Head of the Church, than Christ. 17. Whether the Organized Body be not the constitutive matter of Man, and matter be no part? 17. More of his fumblings about the term [Organized]. The Dr. cannot understand that forma Corporis and forma Hominis are two things. 18. A Story of a Leveller, showing how such Doctors writings have success. 19. How the Doctors Tutor should in his Youth have taught him to understand what the Churches Union is, wherein it consisteth, and by what it's caused. 21, to 27. His profest incapacity of applying the similitude of a Copula, pitied. 27. His palpable untrue Accusation, in the dark. 28. His confused Communion. 30. His Schism plainly confuted, That Churches or Persons of separate and opposite Communion, cannot be united to Christ: By three distinctions, 1. Between Communion and Subjection. 2. Between mental and local Separation. 3. Between mental Separation from Essentials, and from mere Accidents or Integral parts. Instances of the famousest Fathers and Churches that have so far separated from each other.32. His Whimsey of Two Universal Visible Churches. 33. What excommunicate persons are cut off from Christ. 35. Six begged Suppositions which these false Accusers of Schism must have. 36.
The Contents of the Third Part. Dr. Stillingfleet's Defender tried. THe general Character of his Book. p. 1, &c. He placeth not Communion in any transient Acts, but a fixed permanent State. 4. Whether Communion and the Church be the same? 5. Have all the Churches the same Right and Obligation to Communicate with each other? 5.