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 ...…

Once more: God made Adam's Body before he breathed into it the Breath of Life: If this Body had not its form, it was not a Body; nor a humane Body, without the proper form of such: That which hath no form, is no being. If the form of that Body was forma Hominis, then Adam's Body was a Man without his Soul: And then the Soul is not forma hominis. But saith the Doctor, I know not what it meaneth, unless it be, that Adam may be a man without the Corporeal form or Organization.

But lest the Doctor when he understands me, should think, that I have hereby served his Notion of Communion; I must add that it is not either the placing or the being of all the parts of a humane Body, that is this formal Organization, but only of the Essential parts: It may be a humane Body without a Finger, or Hand, or Foot, or Arm, or Leg; and what great ⟨p. 20⟩diversity of parts are found within men, and diversity of place, and shape, you may see in Skenkius his Observation, as well as in Paraeus, Hildanus, Hollerius, and multitudes more that afforded him his instances. But without a Heart, a Brain, a Stomach, a Liver, Lungs, &c. it cannot be a humane Body organized. And without a Gospel Ministry to guide the Flocks, it is not a complete organized Body of Christ, though in fieri, it was an Embryo before.

But lest the Doctor when he understands me, should think, that I have hereby served his Notion of Communion; I must add that it is not either the placing or the being of all the parts of a humane Body, that is this form•l Organization, but only of the Essential parts: It may be a humane Body without a Finger, or Hand, or Foot, or Arm, or Leg; and what great ⟨p. 20⟩diversity of parts are found within men, and diversity of place, and shape, you may see in Skenkius his Observation, as well as in Paraeus, Hildanus, Hollerius, and multitudes more that afforded him his instances. But without a Heart, a Brain, a Stomach, a Liver, Lungs, &c. it cannot be a humane Body organized. And without a Gospel Ministry to guide the Flocks, it is not a compleat organized Body of Christ, though in fieri, it was an Embrio before.