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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.
XCI. But, saith the Resolver, [Christ hath but one Body, and to be a Member of two separate and Opposite Churches, is to be contrary to ourselves.]
Ans. But I had hoped your Catechized Boys had known, 1. That one Body hath many parts. 2. That particular Churches are parts of this Body, as Corporations are of the Kingdom. 3. That all the parts are imperfect, and made up of none but sinners. 4. That every good man is partly bad, and so contrary to himself. 5. That Churches may be so far separate as to be distinct, and yet not so far as to be contrary or opposite. 6. That they may be opposite in Accidents and Integrals, that are one in specie in Essentials. 7. That a man may own several Churches, and Communicate with them for that which they agree in, and yet not own both, (or either perhaps) ⟨p. 56⟩in that which they are opposite in. 8. That there being somewhat opposite in all men and Churches on Earth, you damn your selves for Communicating with them. 9. That a man may have more Communion with the Church which he Locally separateth from, even for sin, than with that which he is present with.
Ans. But I had hoped your Catechized Boyes had known, 1. That one Body hath many parts. 2. That particular Churches are parts of this Body, as Corporations are of the Kingdom. 3. That all the parts are imperfect, and made up of none but sinners. 4. That every good man is partly bad, and so contrary to himself. 5. That Churches may be so far separate as to be distinct, and yet not so far as to be contrary or opposite. 6. That they may be opposite in Accidents and Integrals, that are one in specie in Essentials. 7. That a man may own several Churches, and Communicate with them for that which they agree in, and yet not own both, (or either perhaps) ⟨p. 56⟩in that which they are opposite in. 8. That there being somewhat opposite in all men and Churches on Earth, you damn your selves for Communicating with them. 9. That a man may have more Communion with the Church which he Locally separateth from, even for sin, than with that which he is present with.