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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. He maketh me think of the Man's Answer to the Pharisee, John 9. I have told you, and you heard not. Would you hear it again? If you would know what Unity is, in uno, which is affectio entis, I must again send you to Schibler, or Suarez, or some such Tutor; for I am not meet to tutor you. If you would know in what this Unity consisteth, I have told you before, and oft.
§ 16. But tho this Doctor use it not, we use first to enquire whether the Controversie be de nomine, or de re: And 1. If I satisfy him what maketh the Church to be One, will he grant, that if we agree in that Union, we are in Catholic Communion? If he will, we shall soon be Friends, and no Schismatics, at least with any that knows what Unity is. If he will not, doth he not all this while abuse his Reader, when he so hotly damneth us for want of Catholic Communion, and tells us, that he meaneth Unity, and chargeth me with wilfulness or nonsense, if I think that he meaneth any transient act.
§ 16. But tho this Doctor use it not, we use first to enquire whether the Controversie be de nomine, or de re: And 1. If I satisfie him what maketh the Church to be One, will he grant, that if we agree in that Union, we are in Catholick Communion? If he will, we shall soon be Friends, and no Schismaticks, at least with any that knows what Unity is. If he will not, doth he not all this while abuse his Reader, when he so hotly damneth us for want of Catholick Communion, and tells us, that he meaneth Unity, and chargeth me with wilfulness or nonsense, if I think that he meaneth any transient act.
But 1. De nomine, I will once more tell him why I distinguish Unity and Communion, and think he should have done so too.