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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.
XLVIII. 12. An undetermined accident must be so determined as most serveth to do the greatest good and avoid the greatest Evil: But whether divers Churches shall promiscuously live in the same City or Diocese or Parish, is an Accident not determined by God, and either way may be for the greatest good, as circumstances vary. e. g. When in a Church half cannot consent to condemn the words of Theodoret, Theodore Mopsuest, and Ibas, and half will condemn them with the Council; if these can serve God quietly in Love and Peace in different Congregations, but cannot endure one another in the same, it is most for the Churches Peace that they be permitted to join with those of their own Mind.
XLVIII. 12. An undetermined accident must be so determined as most serveth to do the greatest good and avoid the greatest Evil: But whether divers Churches shall promiscuously live in the same City or Diocess or Parish, is an Accident not determined by God, and either way may be for the greatest good, as circumstances vary. e. g. When in a Church half cannot consent to condemn the words of Theodoret, Theodore Mopsuest, and Ibas, and half will condemn them with the Council; if these can serve God quietly in Love and Peace in different Congregations, but cannot endure one another in the same, it is most for the Churches Peace that they be permitted to joyn with those of their own Mind.
When one Pope declared that it's sound Doctrine to say [One of the Trinity was Crucified,] when another had declared that it is not sound Doctrine, ⟨p. 32⟩they that held with one Pope, and they that held with the other might both be true Churches in different Assemblies: When Justinian raised the bloody controversy between the Corrupticolae and the Phantasiastae, wise men thought both sides were true Churches: Yea and so did many wise men think of the Orthodox and Nestorians and many Eutychians.
When one Pope declared that it's sound Doctrine to say [One of the Trinity was Crucified,] when another had declared that it is not sound Doctrine,