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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.
2. Is one State and Kingdom all the World? All that I have to prove is, That as all the Earth is one Divine Kingdom, God being the absolute Sovereign, and each particular Kingdom is part of it, a Political Body subordinate, informed by its One Humane Sovereign; even so the Universal Church is one Body Politic, informed by Christ, the Divine-Humane Head; and particular Churches are subordinate Bodies Politic, parts of it; as such (but not as Christian) constitutively informed by their proper Pastors; which all those Episcopal men believed, that used the old description, Ecclesia est plebs Episcopo adunata. This is all plain to other men.
2. Is one State and Kingdom all the World? All that I have to prove is, That as all the Earth is one Divine Kingdom, God being the absolute Soveraign, and each particular Kingdom is part of it, a Political Body subordinate, informed by its One Humane Soveraign; even so the Universal Church is one Body Politick, informed by Christ, the Divine-Humane Head; and particular Churches are subordinate Bodies Politick, parts of it; as such (but not as Christian) constitutively informed by their proper Pastors; which all those Episcopal men believed, that used the old description, Ecclesia est plebs Episcopo adunata. This is all plain to other men.
§ 49. P. 201, 202. He finds [nothing like proof but my Assertion, That the Regent part is the Informing part; and if it have not one Regent part, it is not one Society, as Political: If it have none, it is no Polity: If it have many, it is many].
Ans. Reader, his own words are, What a Drudgery it is to dispute with such: If he had talked of these things at School, he would not have challenged his Master to prove the signification of the words in his Dictionary; but now he is a Disputer, there is no end with him: If he challenge me to prove, that Rex signifieth a King, and Subditus a Subject, and so of the rest, he will get the better by tiring me: I can only refer him to