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2. But the addition is shameful misunderstanding; Doth he that saith, Organization is forma Corporis, say, that one may be a m•n without it? This is below puerility? Did I not maintain, that (as Aristotle ha•h his three principles, Matter, Privation, and Form, and by Privation meaneth the Dispositio receptiva of the matter; so) Politic Bodies by similitude to natural, have: And that Organization is that Dispositio receptiva sine qua Materia non recipit formam: And now this famous Doctor cannot understand me when I assert it's Necessity to humanity, unless I mean that one may be a man without it.

2. But the addition is shameful misunderstanding; Doth he that saith, Organization is forma Corporis, say, that one may be a m•n without it? This is below puerility? Did I not maintain, that (as Aristotle ha•h his three principles, Matter, Privation, and Form, and by Privation meaneth the Dispositio receptiva of the matter; so) Politick Bodies by similitude to natural, have: And that Organization is that Dispositio receptiva sine qua Materia non recipit formam: And now this famous Doctor cannot understand me when I assert it's Necessity to humanity, unless I mean that one may be a man without it.

I would not exagitate this ignorance, were it not in a Man that is damning (and encouraging the silencing and ruining of) so many Servants of Christ, for their supposed Ignorance of the Lawfulness of all their Oaths, Promises, and Impositions.

But Reader, my Heart grieveth to think, that so great a number should be carried by such men as this, to the same Love-killing opinions, and practices. I'll put a case to you.