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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.
Ans. This is downright Heresy: But he meaneth not as he speaks: For he often confesseth, that Christ is the Sovereign Head of the Church: And to confess that, and yet say, [That tho Christ be the Regent Head and Sovereign], yet this doth not inform it, or unify it, is gross contradiction, as if the F•rm did not give the specifying and unifying esse & nemen: We may next come to deny, that Master and Scholars are a School, or King and Subjects a Kingdom, or Soul and body united, a Man, or that Two and Two are Four.
Ans. This is downright Heresie: But he meaneth not as he speaks: For he often confesseth, that Christ is the Soveraign Head of the Church: And to confess that, and yet say, [That tho Christ be the Regent Head and Soveraign], yet this doth not inform it, or unifie it, is gross contradiction, as if the F•rm did not give the specifying and unifying esse & nemen: We may next come to deny, that Master and Scholars are a School, or King and Subjects a Kingdom, or Soul and body united, a Man, or that Two and Two are Four.
2. He here plainly makes the Church to be but a Community, which is false.
3. And yet he will have it a Political Society: For he saith, That [for a Political S•ciety to be informed by the One Regent part, is not true of the Church]: which plainly includeth, That the Church is a Political Society, and yet hath not One Regent Head, which is a contradiction. He saith, (The Church must be excepted from Mr. B's Rules and Definitions of […] ).
3. And yet he will have it a Political Society: For he saith, That [for a Politica Sciety to be informed by the One Regent part, is not true of the Church]: which plainly includeth, That the Church is a Political Society, and yet hath not One Regent Head, which is a contradiction. He saith, (The Church must be excepted from Mr. B's Rules and Definitions of ).