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 ...…

[Nor (saith he) for affirming, that the Union of Soul and Body is but like the Copula in a proposition, which is but a spick and spang n•w Notion.] Ans. The man is pugnacious enough, but somewhat restrains him: Is Novelty here the fault? More than this was N•w to him within these twenty years; and much is yet. The terms of a Proposition are no Proposition till the Copula make them one by making the Predication. And a Soul and a Body are no Man, but as United; which maketh the Soul to be Forma in actu. Hath the man confuted this?

[Nor (saith he) for affirming, that the Union of Soul and Body is but like the Copula in a proposition, which is but a spick and spang n•w Notion.] Ans. The man is pugnacious enough, but somewhat restrains him: Is Novelty here the fault? More than this was N•w to him within these twenty years; and much is yet. The terms of a Proposition are no Propositon till the Copula make them one by making the Predication. And a Soul and a Body are no Man, but as United; which maketh the Soul to be Forma in actu. Hath the man confuted this?

'But (saith he) I shall only consider how he applies this to the Church.) Ans. How Sir! do you accuse the Philosophy, and now will you only question the application of it?

Christ it seems th•n is the Soul, and Christians the Body, though in Scripture he is represented as the Head of the Body, and the Divine Spirit as the Soul, which enlivens and animateth it: And if Christ be not the Head of the Body (which I think the Soul was never affirmed yet) the Church must be without a Head, or have another Head than Christ, which I suppose is the reason why he talks so much of a Constitutive Regent Head of the Church.]