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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.
His kind Concessions, That Rebels and Schismatics may have the power of Orders, and Officers rightly constituted, Sacraments, and all Essentials of a true Church, except Peace, and Unity, and Catholic Communion (as if Essentials united not). 36. What Schism is damning, briefly opened. 37. His Doctrine, [That those that believe in Christ, repent of their sins, and lead an holy life in all godliness and honesty — may yet be excluded from all the ordinary means of salvation, proved false, subverting the Gospel. 37, 38. His odd Doctrine, That the Divine Spirit is the Principle of Immortality in us, which first giveth life to our Souls, and will at last raise our Bodies; modestly examined, and Reasons given for the Immortality of all mens Souls, as well as those that have the Spirit; and that the rest are not annihilated, but have a future life; and that there is a Resurrection of the just and unjust, and an Hell. 39. His Notion, That all Bishops are but one Bishop, because Episcopatus unus est. 42. Of Independency of Churches. 43. The word [Unus] equivocal. 44. Whether we may call all those Bishops, who causelessly break Unity, No Catholic Bishops. 44. More of Catholic Unity of Bishops. His Opinion of the Original of Arch-Bishops. 46. His charge of Knavery and blind Fury, managed by more and more confusion. 47. ⟨image 5⟩He denieth the Church to have any one constitutive Regent Head, when it is essential to Christ to be such, and the Church to have such. He confesseth that the Church is no Political Society, as headed by men. 48. Whether Civil and Church Policy be not the same in genere? 49. What Principles of Politics the Dr. should have learnt in his Youth: Nine Points which he should have been taught. p. 51, 52. Dr. Parker's Doctrine. The Defenders dishonouring Dr. Stillingfleet, as if he denied Christ to be a constitutive Regent Head of the Church Visible as such. p. 53. How far Christ is such a Visible Head. 52. Whether all causeless Separation from any part of the Church, on account of Accidents, or by Opinions, cut off men from the whole Church (with more of his errors confuted) to p. 56.
His kind Concessions, That Rebels and Schismaticks may have the power of Orders, and Officers rightly constituted, Sacraments, and all Essentials of a true Church, except Peace, and Vnity, and Catholick Communion (as if Essentials united not). 36. What Schism is damning, briefly opened. 37. His Doctrine, [Thas those that believe in Christ, repent of their sins, and lead an holy life in all godliness and honesty — may yet be excluded from all the ordinary means of salvation, proved false, subverting the Gospel. 37, 38. His odd Doctrine, That the Divine Spirit is the Principle of Immortality in us, which first giveth life to our Souls, and will at last raise our Bodies; modestly examined, and Reasons given for the Immortality of all mens Souls, as well as those that have the Spirit; and that the rest are not annihilated, but have a future life; aad that there is a Resurrection of the just and unjust, and an Hell. 39. His Notion, That all Bishops are but one Bishop, because Episcopatus unus est. 42. Of Independency of Churches. 43. The word [Unus] equivocal. 44. Whether we may call all those Bishops, who causelesly break Vnity, No Catholick Bishops. 44. More of Catholick Vnity of Bishops. His Opinion of the Original of Arch-Bishops. 46. His charge of Knavery and blind Fury, managed by more and more confusion. 47.