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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
And all this I have given the World full1 proof of, in my Dispute against Mr. Johnson the Papist, of the Visibility of the Church. Had I not weighed the words, I had not so many years ago so largely proved and maintained them. And I have there fully proved, that the Roman Church was only Imperial, or of the Empire (and the Countries that after fell from the Empire) such as we call national, because under one Prince. That de facto, the Persians, the Abassines, Indians, part of Armenia, and many other Churches or Christians, never acknowledged him their Constitutive or Governing Head; that the Emperors who called the General Councils had nothing to do with the subjects of other Princes, nor used to call them: That the General Councils consisted only of the subjects of the Empire, (and those that had been of the Empire,) except one Johannes Persidis, and one or two more inconsiderable persons, that no account can be given of, who they were, or how they came thither. Godignus himself ⟨p. 34⟩will tell you enough of the Abissines. All the Papists in the World are never able to answer this public Evidence of fact, with any sense.
And all this I have given the World full1 proof of, in my Dispute against Mr. Iohnson the Papist, of the Visibility of the Church. Had I not weighed the words, I had not so many years ago so largely proved and maintained them. And I have there fully proved, that the Romane Church was only Imperial, or of the Empire (and the Countreys that after fell from the Empire) such as we call national, because under one Prince. That de facto, the Persians, the Abassines, Indians, part of Armenia, and many other Churches or Christians, never acknowledged him their Constitutive or Governing Head; that the Emperors who called the General Councils had nothing to do with the subjects of other Princes, nor used to call them: That the General Councils consisted only of the subjects of the Empire, (and those that had been of the Empire,) except one Iohannes Persidis, and one or two more inconsiderable persons, that no account can be given of, who they were, or how they came thither. Godignus himself ⟨p. 34⟩will tell you enough of the Abissines. All the Papists in the World are never able to answer this publick Evidence of fact, with any sense.