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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.
§ 24. Let us follow him further: p. 47. he saith, [But how to apply the Copula in a Proposition either to the union of Soul or Body, or of Christ and his Church, I cannot tell; and shall never be able to learn, till I meet with some new Baxterian Logic, as well as Grammar and Metaphysics.
§ 24. Let us follow him further: p. 47. he saith, [But how to apply the Copula in a Proposition either to the union of Soul or Body, or of Christ and his Church, I cannot tell; and shall never be able to learn, till I meet with some new Baxterian Logick, as well as Grammar and Metaphysicks.
Ans. And yet you will think your self wise enough to stir up men against us for our ignorance, while you are raging confident. Are you resolved to read no Logic that's already written? One would have thought it should have pleased one that pleads for Unity: As it is no Proposition, but made so by the Copula, uniting the terms as Subject and Predicate, and the Union maketh one the Predicate; so it is no Man and no Church by the bare existence of Soul and Body, or of Christ and Believers, without the uniting of both together, that so the Soul may become in actu, the forma hominis, and Christ the forma Ecclesiae. Homo & Animal rationale, are no Proposition without a Uniting est. Is not this plain?
Ans. And yet you will think your self wise enough to stir up men against us for our ignorance, while you are raging confident. Are you resolved to read no Logick that's already written? One would have thought it should have pleased one that pleads for Unity: As it is no Proposition, but made so by the Copula, uniting the terms as Subject and Predicate, and the Union maketh one the Predicate; so it is no Man and no Church by the bare existence of Soul and Body, or of Christ and Believers, without the uniting of both together, that so the Soul may become in actu, the forma hominis, and Christ the forma Ecclesiae. Homo & Animal rationale, are no Proposition without a Uniting est. Is not this plain?