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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.
§ 14. P. 39. Repeating my words, he tells you, I misconstrue both terms: But you are best take it on his word. And he feigneth, that I do, or must infer [ergo, the Unity of the Catholic Church doth n•t consist in being one Body, and Society, and Communion of Christians: Whereas I infer the clear contrary, That it doth consist in one such body, it's Union with Christ making it such an one.
§ 14. P. 39. Repeating my words, he tells you, I misconstrue both terms: But you are best take it on his word. And he feigneth, that I do, or must infer [ergo, the Unity of the Catholick Church doth n•t consist in being one Body, and Society, and Communion of Christians: Whereas I infer the clear contrary, That it doth consist in one such body, it's Union with Christ making it such an one.
Yet here he addeth, [If this be to write controversies, we may as well lay wagers, and cast lots for major, minor, and conclusion: Which words truly tell you what the Doctor's Logical strength is; like the Woman that told the Doctor, that she could make her hungry Pig cry with better Logic than all the Doctors in the University did dispute. And could not a Quaker say as much?
Yet here he addeth, [If this be to write controversies, we may as well lay wagers, and cast lots for major, minor, and conclusion: Which words truly tell you what the Doctor's Logical strength is; like the Woman that told the Doctor, that she could make her hungry Pig cry with better Logick than all the Doctors in the University did dispute. And could not a Quaker say as much?
§ 15. P. 41, 42. He seemeth serious in asking me, How the Catholic Church is united in one Body, so as to be one Church? And when I tell him, how many sorts of Union there are; he saith, he cares not how many sorts there are, so I will tell him what the Unity of the Catholic Church is.]