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Ans. Which words are to me as unintelligible as any Nonsense. Doth any thing make it One Church but that which maketh it A Church? Doth not that which maketh it eus existens, make it Unum? Doth not the word [Church] name its Essence? If he ask me, how the parts of Man come to make One Man? Who would think but he meant either One Man essential, or else improperly, One entire Man? And what Answer would any give but this? If your [how] mean what was the efficient cause, it's God and the Generators: If you mean, [what are the constitutive causes]? They are Soul and Body united, that make a Man in Essence; and the integrating parts united, that make him an entire Man.

Ans. Which words are to me as unintelligible as any Nonsence. Doth any thing make it One Church but that which maketh it A Church? Doth not that which maketh it eus existens, make it Unum? Doth not the word [Church] name its Essence? If he ask me, how the parts of Man come to make One Man? Who would think but he meant either One Man essential, or else improperly, One entire Man? And what Answer would any give but this? If your [how] mean what was the efficient cause, it's God and the Generators: If you mean, [what are the constitutive causes]? They are Soul and Body united, that make a Man in Essence; and the integrating parts united, that make him an entire Man.

O! but saith our Doctor, I ask not wherein the Essence of the Church consists? Ans. Then you ask not what maketh it One in constitution: What then do you mean, unless it be the efficient cause, which no Man would think you meant that read the rest of your Book? For my part, I despair of knowing what you mean, till you have better learned to speak.

But this seemeth to imply, that we are agreed of the constitutive Causes of the One Catholic Church; and our disagreement were of the Efficient. If that be it, I'll tell you what maketh the Church One efficiently: 1. God maketh Man to be Man, and so capable matter. 2. God gave Christ to be the Mediator and Head. 3. God made (by Christ)