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The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted…
The dangerous schismatic clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...The dangerous schismatick clearly detected and fully confuted for the saving of a distracted nation from that which would destroy Christian love and unity : occasioned by a resolver of three cases about church-communion / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1683
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. Let us not swallow this without Chewing: 1. Whether all be extremely absurd and unreasonable which such Doctors call so; I am grown to doubt as much as whether all be Schism which Schismatics call so: Ipse dixit is no Proof.
Ans. Let us not swallow this without Chewing: 1. Whether all be extreamly absurd and unreasonable which such Doctors call so; I am grown to doubt as much as whether all be Schism which Schismaticks call so: Ipse dixit is no Proof.
2. What the meaning of this great, Decantate Word [Separate] is, ⟨p. 6⟩must anon be enquired: But, may not Churches be distinct and not culpably separate? He confesseth afterwards both local distinction and separation.
3. How far are the Universal Church and Particular Churches distinct? As Whole and Parts? Must the World at last learn that Whole and Parts are not distinct? If you take if for absurd to distinguish a Man from a Body, or from a Liver, Hand or Foot, Dissenters do not; nor to distinguish a College from an University, a House from a Street, a Street from a City, &c.
3. How far are the Vniversal Church and Particular Churches distinct? As Whole and Parts? Must the World at last learn that Whole and Parts are not distinct? If you take if for absurd to distinguish a Man from a Body, or from a Liver, Hand or Foot, Dissenters do not; nor to distinguish a Colledge from an University, a House from a Street, a Street from a City, &c.