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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.
P. 183. It is but a voluntary combination, and stricter association for preserving Unity by advice, &c. All this is good (tho damned by him in the Independents) if they would combine to rule according to the Laws of Christ, and not make any of their own without authority, nor so as to accuse Christ's Laws of insufficiency, nor make dividing noxious snares.
P. 183. It is but a voluntary combination, and stricter associasion for preserving Unity by advice, &c. All this is good (tho damned by him in the Independents) if they would combine to rule according to the Laws of Christ, and not make any of their own without authority, nor so as to accuse Christ's Laws of insufficiency, nor make dividing noxious snares.
§ 45. Saith he, p. 189. [That this Church is Universal, is founded on the Laws of Catholic Communion].
§ 45. Saith he, p. 189. [That this Church is Universal, is founded on the Laws of Catholick Communion].
Ans. No Humane Laws make the Church Universal. Men may make their own Subjects or Confederates unite in accidents (either just, as in one Translation of Scripture, one time and place and meeting, &c. or unjust, when it's hurtful, vain, or belongs not to them); but it is only he that maketh the Church a Church, who thereby maketh it One Church in Essentials: And in Integrals, he that maketh it entire (by institution or efficiency).