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Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
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.
§. 16. Pag. 14. When he denied any Divine Covenant to make us members of particular Churches distinguished from the Universal (as all National, Diocesan and Parochial are, as parts from the whole) he presently confuteth all again, saying [The exercise of Church Communion, as to most of the particular ⟨p. 16⟩duties and Offices of it must be confined to a particular Church and Congregation (for we cannot actually join in the Communion of Prayers and Sacraments, &c. but with some particular Church.]
§. 16. Pag. 14. When he denyed any Divine Covenant to make us members of particular Churches distinguish't from the Universal (as all National, Diocesan and Parochial are, as parts from the whole) he presently confuteth all again, saying [The exercise of Church Communion, as to most of the particular ⟨p. 16⟩duties and Offices of it must be confined to a particular Church and Congregation (for we cannot actually joyn in the Communion of Prayers and Sacraments, &c. but with some particular Church.]
A. Oportuit fuisse memorem,—1. Reader, doth not this man here confess that there are particular Churches? 2. If these be not distinct from the whole, then each particular is the whole. 3. If the Exercise must be in particular Churches, must not men Consent to their Relations and Duties? Is it a sin to Promise Duty? 4. Sure it is not mere Place, but a mutual Relation of Pastors and People that distinguisheth these Churches. The Presbyterians preached once in the same Places that you do, and yet you take them not for the same Church Pastors. If one from York or Cornwall come into your Pulpit without consent, do People stand as much related to him as to you? Some men are of extraordinary sufficiency to resist and conquer the clearest evidence of Truth.
A. Oportuit fuisse memorem,—1. Reader, doth not this man here confess that there are particular Churches? 2. If these be not distinct from the whole, then each particular is the whole. 3. If the Exercise must be in particular Churches, must not men Consent to their Relations and Duties? Is it a sin to Promise Duty? 4. Sure it is not meer Place, but a mutual Relation of Pastors and People that distinguisheth these Churches. The Presbyterians preach't once in the same Places that you do, and yet you take them not for the same Church Pastors. If one from York or Cornwall come into your Pulpit without consent, do People stand as much related to him as to you? Some men are of extraordinary sufficiency to resist and conquer the clearest evidence of Truth.