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 ...…

Ans. We thank you for that much. But the Church is a Political Society; and to deny it, is to deny an Article of the Creed, and to unchurch it, quoad ipsam formam: And Christ is its constitutive regent Head: The whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named by him; from whom the whole compacted body is increased and edified: And it's dangerous false Doctrine (worse than breaking one of your Canons) to hold, that the Church cannot be a Political Society, unless it have an Head on Earth.

Ans. We thank you for that much. But the Church is a Political Society; and to deny it, is to deny an Article of the Creed, and to unchurch it, quoad ipsam formam: And Christ is its constitutive regent Head: The whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named by him; from whom the whole compacted body is increast and edified: And it's dangerous false Doctrine (worse than breaking one of your Canons) to hold, that the Church cannot be a Political Society, unless it have an Head on Earth.

§ 48. He adds (when I showed that all Episcopal Writers, as Hooker, Spalatensis, &c. of Church Polity, take the Church for one Body Politic) [But what is this to the purpose? Does Hooker set up one Regent Head?]

§ 48. He adds (when I shewed that all Episcopal Writers, as Hooker, Spalatensis, &c. of Church Polity, take the Church for one Body Politick) [But what is this to the purposo? Does Hooker set up one Regent Head?]

Ans. 1. Yes, Christ. 2. Was it not directly to my purpose, to prove it a Polity, which was that which I alleged it for?

Ans. 1. Yes, Christ. 2. Was it not directly to my purpose, to prove it a Polity, which was that which I alledged it for?