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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.
2. They cannot be One numerically in the Relation of Bishop: For the Relation is Accidens quod sequitur subjectum: The same numerical Accident cannot possibly be in two distinct Subjects: For it perisheth if it cease to be in its Subject. One man's Colour, Virtue, Learning, &c. cannot numerically be the Accident of another: So that all Bishops being one Bishop, is just like the rest of this man's Doctrine. I believe one may be good and another bad, one saved and another damned.
What can the man mean by it, if he could speak his mind? Sure nothing but that their Office is of the same species, and they bound to use it in their several places, as from one Christ, under one Law of his, with the greatest Love and Concord they can, and for the common good of one Universal Church: Can he mean more, without gross Error? And who denieth any of this, as to the Episcopacy of Christ's institution?
§ 37. [They are bound to govern where it can be had, by mutual advice and consent].
Ans. So far as the end requireth, The common good: So say the Independents: And is that the Unity so much talked of?