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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.
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.
A. I had hoped that no man but Mr. Cheny had talked at this rate.
A. I had hoped that no man but Mr. Cheny had talkt at this rate.
I. It's agreed on, that there is but one Universal Church: The contrary is a Contradiction. 2. It is agreed, that there is no lawful particular Church which is not a part of the Universal. 3. That whoever hath just Union and Communion with a true particular Church, hath Union and Communion with the Universal: 4. That all men in their Worship of God, should accordingly perform it (and do all that they do) as Men in that Relation to the Universal Church: None of this is controverted.