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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.
§ 12. But he saith, [Upon a stricter examination he finds me blundered and confounded about the Notion of Unity—This Unity I term Union.
Ans. The Doctor will grow over-critical if he hold on, if he mean this as part of my blundering and confusion: But it is but Grammar that I am ignorant of: I confess my ignorance: I thought that [Unio] had Two significations; one active, for that act of uniting which maketh One of Two; and that also Twofold: 1. To unite efficiently: 2. To unite constitutively: And the other as signifying the same with Unity caused. And I thought that Unitas had ordinarily signified by a more abstract word, the same Oneness as Unio, in the latter sense; and sometimes abusively, active Union. But I am ready to learn better.
§ 13. But saith he, [He understands it of our Union to Christ, not of the Unity or Oneness of the Christian Church.
Ans. The best is, he saveth me from unmannerly telling you that he speaketh falsely, by confessing the falsehood in the very terms of accusation: For if he dare say, that it is no Church-Union to be all United to one Christ in our common Christianity, he is a very fale Teacher.