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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.
If Justices or Mayors will of themselves make a New Body Politic by Confederacy and Association, and say, We claim no Superiority, but an Authority, in order to Communion to make Laws of Government for the Kingdom, or many Counties, and should say, It is One Kingdom, as Unified by this Communion, and these Laws of ours, and not by their Relation to one King, I should doubt whether to call them Sots, or Rebels, or Traitors.
If Justices or Mayors will of themselves make a New Body Politick by Confederacy and Association, and say, We claim no Superiority, but an Authority, in order to Communion to make Laws of Government for the Kingdom, or many Counties, and should say, It is One Kingdom, as Unified by this Communion, and these Laws of ours, and not by their Relation to one King, I should doubt whether to call them Sots, or Rebels, or Traitors.
§ 5•. P. 206, 207. he boldly repeateth, [How oft have I told him what it is that makes the Catholic Church One Catholic Church, which is the constitutive Form he enquires after; viz. Not one superior power over the whole Church, but one Communion] (and this Communion is in Humane Forms and Canons).
§ 5•. P. 206, 207. he boldly repeateth, [How oft have I told him what it is that makes the Catholick Church One Catholick Church, which is the constitutive Form he enquires after; viz. Not one superior power over the whole Church, but one Communion] (and this Communion is in Humane Forms and Canons).
Ans. How oft doth he tell us that, which if a Dissenter had asserted, I should have thought the Name of an Heretic too gentle for him, as coming so near the denying both of the Church and Christ. See here the Church is not made One (and so not made the Church) by its unitive Relation to Christ the Head: He is not the constitutive Regent Form, but a Voluntary Agreement to make Laws of Government, &c. is the constitutive Form: And yet he saith before, It is not made by Man, but God.