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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.
§ 23. p. 46. He comes after with an [If I mean] to conjecture what I mean and think; it fits his present case well; why then doth he quarrel with it? But what is his case, [Then the Church cannot be united to Christ in one Body without union with it self, and the unity of the Catholic Church cannot consist merely in the Union of all particular Churches in and to Christ, without any Union among themselves.]
§ 23. p. 46. He comes after with an [If I mean] to conjecture what I mean and think; it fits his present case well; why then doth he quarrel with it? But what is his case, [Then the Church cannot be united to Christ in one Body without union with it self, and the unity of the Catholick Church cannot consist meerly in the Union of all particular Churches in and to Christ, without any Union among themselves.]
Ans. Who did he ever Read, or hear say, that the Churches have no Union, or no other than their Union in Christ, among themselves? He may see before § 9. I named ten points of their Union. On Condition that he will not take the Clothes, or the Periwig, or the House, or the Horse, or Coach, no nor his Wealth, or Office, for the man; I'll once more tell him, (for the Readers sake, and not his) wherein the Unity of the Church consisteth, and also in what all have Communion.
Ans. Who did he ever Read, or hear say, that the Churches have no Union, or no other than their Union in Christ, among themselves? He may see before § 9. I named ten points of their Union. On Condition that he will not take the Cloathes, or the Periwig, or the House, or the Horse, or Coach, no nor his Wealth, or Office, for the man; I'le once more tell him, (for the Readers sake, and not his) wherein the Unity of the Church consisteth, and also in what all have Communion.