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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.
And what's the reason that all this while you will not name that thing else, that makes the Church one? Do it if you can.
§ 27. P. 49. Falsely saying, that I have not told him what Union of the Churches among themselves is necessary, he feigns an Union in Christ the Centre, consistent with as great distance as the two Poles..
§ 27. P. 49. Falsly saying, that I have not told him what Union of the Churches among themselves is necessary, he feigns an Union in Christ the Center, consistent with as great distance as the two Poles..
Ans. What base thoughts hath this man of Christianity? Is it a contemptible Union to have all one Faith, one Hope, one Baptismal Covenant, and so one God, one Lord, one Spirit, and one body of such, and all the Twelve parts of Union and Communion before named? 2. Were it not worth the labour for this man to tell us what the more near and excellent Union is which he hath a mind to set up? Paul saith, I tell you of a more excellent way, when he speaks of the Union of Love, even Love to God and our Saviour first, and to all his Members as united in him. Out of all this man's books I cannot find what his nearer Union is, unless it be to unite in such as he; that is, in obedience to their Wills; and so Subjection to them be this high Communion: He saith over and over the general word, Catholic Communion; but what he placeth it in, let him find that can.
Ans. What base thoughts hath this man of Christianity? Is it a contemptible Union to have all one Faith, one Hope, one Baptismal Covenant, and so one God, one Lord, one Spirit, and one body of such, and all the Twelve parts of Union and Communion before named? 2. Were it not worth the labour for this man to tell us what the more near and excellent Union is which he hath a mind to set up? Paul saith, I tell you of a more excellent way, when he speaks of the Union of Love, even Love to God and our Saviour first, and to all his Members as united in him. Out of all this man's books I cannot find what his nearer Union is, unless it be to unite in such as he; that is, in obedience to their Wills; and so Subjection to them be this high Communion: He saith over and over the general word, Catholick Communion; but what he placeth it in, let him find that can.