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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.
§ 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.
Ans. You make this Catholic Unity essential to the Church: And yet doth it lie in Humane Canons and Associations? Did Christ leave things so essential to Humane Invention? And is concord in your Canons necessary to salvation? And yet the proof of all this, is but this, and such Doctors Assertion, that [it's highly reasonable]. And so Unity and Salvation must lie on all that such will think highly reasonable.
Ans. You make this Catholick Unity essential to the Church: And yet doth it lie in Humane Canons and Ass•ciations? Did Christ leave things so essential to Humane Invention? And is concord in your Canons necessary to salvation? And yet the proof of all this, is but this, and such Doctors Assertion, that [it's highly reasonable]. And so Unity and Salvation must lie on all that such will think highly reasonable.