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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.
3. But when this Doctor added [If Christ be not the Head of the Body, the Church must be without a Head, or have some other Head than Christ, which I suppose is the Reason why he talks so much of a constitutive Regent Head of the Church.]
Reader, Can you tell what he means by [which is the Reason?] Which of the two meaneth he [that I suppose the Church without a Head?] When I so oft and largely prove Christ to be the Head. — Or is it that [I hold some other Head?] When my Book is to disprove it. Which ever it be, I do not think refusing such a Pastor as makes no more of the Ninth Commandment, is a damning Schism. The Sin of Church tyranny goes not alone.
§ 20. P. 45 He proceeds [But the organized Body is the constitutive matter of the man: though other Philosophers used to call the Body a constitutive part: but to let that pass.]
Ans. You had not the Wit to let it pass: Durst I have accused you of ⟨p. 18⟩