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 ...…

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?

§ 25. P. 47, 48. Granting that there is no Universal Government but Christ, he's again at it, that there is somewhat more than Organization, and all the Essentials of Christianity and Union with Christ, to make the Church One: and thereupon feigneth me to say, [That which maketh this Body to become a Church, is no union among themselves]; and leaveth out the rest of the Sentence, [but their common union with Christ:] As if their common Union with Christ were not an Union among themselves. If I have not made this plain enough, That 1. the Church hath the Unity of the parts to make it a capable Body or Matter. 2. That it hath a consequent Union and Communion after it is a Church. 3. But that it is only the Union of adapted Matter and Form, that makes it essentially the Church of Christ in the proper political sense, then I despair of making it intelligible, that forma dat esse & nomen: And if that which maketh it [the Church] do not thereby make it hoc unum, then eus & unum non convertuntur, and unum must have a distinct cause from eus.