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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. Their Graces and gifts are numerically distinct (Faith, Hope, Love, &c.) from those of other Churches thó ejusdem speciei. 3. England and France, London and Oxford, have Churches of different place and Situation: 4. But the formal individuating difference is their nearest Relation to their several Pastors; as several Kingdoms, Cities, Schools are numerically distinct by their distinct Kings, Mayors, School-masters, so are several Churches ejusdem speciei. 1. Thess. 5.12, 13: Know those that are among you and over you in the Lord, and esteem them highly in love for their Works sake. As every mans Wife, Children and Servants must be used for the common good, and yet are not common, one mans Wife and Children are not another's; So the Bishop of London, of Oxford &c. must govern his Church for the good of the Universal; but he is not the Bishop of Gloucester, Norwich, Paris, Rome.
2. Their Graces and gifts are numerically distinct (Faith, Hope, Love, &c.) from those of other Churches thó ejusdem speciei. 3. England and France, London and Oxford, have Churches of different place and Scituation: 4. But the formal individuating difference is their nearest Relation to their several Pastors; as several Kingdoms, Cities, Schools are numerically distinct by their distinct Kings, Maiors, School-masters, so are several Churches ejusdem speciei. 1. Thess. 5.12, 13: Know those that are among you and over you in the Lord, and esteem them highly in love for their Works sake. As every mans Wife, Children and Servants must be used for the common good, and yet are not common, one mans Wife and Children are not anothers; So the Bishop of London, of Oxford &c. must govern his Church for the good of the Universal; but he is not the Bishop of Gloucester, Norwich, Paris, Rome.
These are differences enow to constitute a numerical difference of Churches: Paul distinguisheth the Bishops of Philippi, Ephesus, &c. from others.