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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.
If you say, They must all agree to those called the Codex Ecclesiae Universalis, or the Four or Six first approved Councils, &c. I answer, 1. It's gratis dictum: And how prove you those universally obligatory, and no other? And how will you satisfy Conscience, which are the obligatory Laws indeed?
If you say, They must all agree to those called the Codex Ecclesiae Universalis, or the Four or Six first approved Councils, &c. I answer, 1. It's gratis dictum: And how prove you those universally obligatory, and no other? And how will you satisfie Conscience, which are the obligatory Laws indeed?
2. Why do you then cast all from Communion that observe the 20th Canon of the Council of Nice?
3. What power have dead Bishops over us, and all Christ's Church? They were Canons for one Empire which is dissolved, and of which we are no part.
4. Is Christ so insufficient a Lawgiver, even for Laws necessary to the Unity of his Church, as that we must have more Laws of Government and Discipline which the Catholic Church must unite in, or be no Church: And shall that man plead for such Laws that yet saith, There is no universal Governor? I never said, you are a Cassandrian, or a Papist: But it was such ignorant Doctors that saddled the Horse, and held the Stirrup while the Pope got up.