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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.
But 1. De nomine, I will once more tell him why I distinguish Unity and Communion, and think he should have done so too.
Words in Dispute are to be used in the sense that Men of the Profession which the Subject most belongs to, use them, unless otherwise explained. But Men that write of Logic, Metaphysics, Physics and Politics, ⟨p. 10⟩use to distinguish Unity from Communion so far, as that usually Communion pres•pposeth Unity, secundum quid, and ever includeth some transient Acts, when Unity is but the denomination of Eus qua U•um.
Words in Dispute are to be used in the sense that Men of the Profession which the Subject most belongs to, use them, unless otherwise explained. But Men that write of Logick, Metaphysicks, Physicks and Politicks, ⟨p. 10⟩use to distinguish Unity from Communion so far, as that usually Communion pres•pposeth Unity, secundum quid, and ever includeth some transient Acts, when Unity is but the denomination of Eus qua U•um.
I hope I may take the Language of our Creed to be so tolerable, as that it is not necessary to salvation to condemn it. [Greek or Hebrew], is by the Church of England [which I hope is no damned Schismatical Sect] translated [the Communion of Saints]. That by [Communion] they mean some transient Acts, and not mere Union, all Expositors that ever I read among them show, (as do all the Fathers, and all Foreign Interpreters that I have read) At least, methinks he should not disdain to learn his Grammar again of Dr. Hammond and Dr. Heylin.