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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.
Page 2. §. 2. He explaineth his Word [Body] as opposed to a confused Multitude.
A. But a Community of Equals, that have no Governors, may have order, and •e no confused Multitude. And he himself after pleads over much for a necessity of Rulers.
A. But a Community of Equals, that have no Governours, may have order, and •e no confused Multitude. And he himself after pleads over much for a necessity of Rulers.
P. 3. §. 3. And in many places, his Confusion and grand error is repeated, that the Christian Church is but one: p. 7. We know no Church but what all Christians are members of by Baptism, which is the Universal Church: p. 8. There is but one Church, of which all Christians are members, as there is but one Covenant; p. 19. If there be but one Church and one Communion, of which all true Christians are members, &c. p. 23. I am no otherwise a member of any particular Church, than I am of the Universal: p. 40. It's a schismatical Notion of membership that divides the Christian Church into distinct memberships, and therefore into the distinct Bodies: And p. 19. and often he saith, those Churches which are not members of each other, are separate Churches and Schismatics.
P. 3. §. 3. And in many places, his Confusion and grand errour is repeated, that the Christian Church is but one: p. 7. We know no Church but what all Christians are members of by Baptsme, which is the Vniversal Church: p. 8. There is but one Church, of which all Christians are members, as there is but one Covenant; p. 19. If there be but one Church and one Communion, of which all true Christians are members, &c. p. 23. I am no otherwise a member of any particular Church, than I am of the Vniversal: p. 40. It's a schismatical Notion of membership that divides the Christian Church into distinct memberships, and therefore into the distinct Bodyes: And p. 19. and often he saith, those Churches which are not members of each other, are separate Churches and Schismaticks.