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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.
2. What if I had said an Organical Church (as I sometimes do an Organized) who knows not that ex penuria nominum, the words Church, Kingdom▪ City, Family, School, &c. are ordinarily used equivocally; sometimes properly, for the whole Church, Kingdom, City, &c. as a Governed Society including Matter and form united: And sometimes improperly for the Material part alone; the Kingdom, as distinguished from the King; the Church, as distinct from Christ, and from the Bishops; and so of all the rest. And when I so oft told you, that the Organical Body of Christians is the Matter of the Church, and Christ the fo•m, (as far as these terms fit Bodies Politic) could you not find in such words, [Of what it is the Matter?] of the Church of Christ.
2. What if I had said an Organical Church (as I sometimes do an Organized) who knows not that ex penuria nominum, the words Church, Kingdom▪ City, Family, School, &c. are ordinarily used equivocally; sometimes properly, for the whole Church, Kingdom, City, &c. as a Governed Society including Matter and form united: And sometimes improperly for the Material part alone; the Kingdom, as distinguisht from the King; the Church, as distinct from Christ, and from the Bishops; and so of all the rest. And when I so oft told you, that the Organical Body of Christians is the Matter of the Church, and Christ the fo•m, (as far as these terms fit Bodies Politick) could you not find in such words, [Of what it is the Matter?] of the Church of Christ.
§ 22. He adds [But that these parts be duly placed and united, is forma Corporis, non Hominis; which what it means, I cannot tell, unless that a man would be a man, though the several parts of his Body did not stand in their right places, nor were united to one another, so they were all united to the Soul.]