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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.
§ 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.
Ans. How oft doth he tell us that, which if a Dissenter had asserted, I should have thought the Name of an Heretick 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.
§ 51. But p. 220. he disgraceth the Dean by these words, [Mr. B. indeed says, That the Universal Church is headed by Christ himself: But as the Dean adds, this doth not remove the difficulty: For the question is about the Visible Church, whereof the particular Churches are parts; and they being visible parts, do require a visible constitutive Regent Head, as essential to them: Therefore the whole Visible Church must likewise have a visible constitutive Regent Head.