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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.
Ans. 1. Such large Notions may be sufficient to you, but they signify little more than noise to me. Here we are told, that by [Communion] he meaneth [the Church]: And so when we read of [Communion with the Church], it meaneth [the Church with the Church]; and [Church-Communion] are Two Synonimal words, and signify [Church, Church]. And in the Creed (the Catholic Church and Communion of Saints] is a Tautology.
Ans. 1. Such large Notions may be sufficient to you, but they signifie little more than noise to me. Here we are told, that by [Communion] he meaneth [the Church]: And so when we read of [Communion with the Church], it meaneth [the Church with the Church]; and [Church-Communion] are Two Synonimal words, and signifie [Church, Church]. And in the Creed (the Catholick Church and Communion of Saints] is a Tautology.
2. But the Church is called [Communion] from [Communication]: And is Communication no transient act, but a fixed state?
3. If the plain sense be, That all Churches in the World are one Church (as parts in the whole), who differs from you in that? We are all then of one Catholic Communion, and shall believe that all true Christians are of one Church, till the Excommunicators better disprove it.
3. If the plain sense be, That all Churches in the World are one Church (as parts in the whole), who differs from you in that? We are all then of one Catholick Communion, and shall believe that all true Christians are of one Church, till the Excommunicators better disprove it.