A26880:711
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.
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.
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 Catholick 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.
§ 40. [This (saith he) makes it highly reasonable for Neighbour-Bishops at as great a distance as the thing is practicable with ease and convenience, as the Bishops of the same Province or Nation, to live together in a strict Ass• ciation and Confederacy, to meet in Synods—to oblige themselves to the same Rules of Discipline and Worship—There may be a primacy of order granted to some Bishops and their Chair, by general consent, and under the regulation of Ecclesiastical Canons, for the preservation of Catholic Unity.
§ 40. [This (saith he) makes it highly reasonable for Neighbour-Bishops at as great a distance as the thing is practicable with ease and convenience, as the Bishops of the same Province or Nation, to live together in a strict Ass ciation and Confederacy, to meet in Synods—to oblige themselves to the same Rules of Discipline and Worship—There may be a primacy of order granted to some Bishops and their Chair, by general consent, and under the regulation of Ecclesiastical Canons, for the preservation of Catholick Unity.