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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.
§ 42. Page 128. Saith he, [Every Bishop is the proper Governor of his own Diocese, and cannot be regularly imposed on against his consent.]
§ 42. Page 128. Saith he, [Every Bishop is the proper Governour of his own Diocess, and cannot be regularly imposed on against his consent.]
Ans. Yet even now [He that causelessly breaks this Union is no Catholic Bishop. It seems then it goeth not by Vote; but a Dissenter may be a free Catholic: I pray you then impose not on others against their con•ent.
Ans. Yet even now [He that causelesly breaks this Union is no Catholick Bishop. It seems then it goeth not by Vote; but a Dissenter may be a free Catholick: I pray you then impose not on others against their con•ent.
[The whole Authority (saith he) of any Bishop or Council over other Bishops, is founded on the Laws of Catholic Communion—Therefore they have no proper Authority, but only in such matters as concern the Unity of the Episcopacy, or the Peace and Communion of the Catholic Church. If a Bishop be convicted of Heresy or Schism, or some great wickedness or impiety, they may depose him, and forbid his people to communicate with him, and ordain another in his stead, because he subverts the Unity of the Faith, or divides the Unity of the Church, or is himself unfit for Communion.
[The whole Authority (saith he) of any Bishop or Council over other Bishops, is founded on the Laws of Catholick Communion—Therefore they have no proper Authority, but only in such matters as concern the Unity of the Episcopacy, or the Peace and Communion of the Catholick Church. If a Bishop be convicted of Heresie or Schism, or some great wickedness or impiety, they may depose him, and forbid his people to communicate with him, and ordain another in his stead, because he subverts the Unity of the Faith, or divides the Unity of the Church, or is himself unfit for Communion.