A27028:171
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.
XV. As Logicians say of other Relations, the matter must be capable of the end, or it is not capable of the name and form; so is it here: e. g. It is no Ship that is made of mere Sponge or Paper, or that is no bigger than a Spoon; it is no Spoon that is as big as a Ship: One House is not a Village, nor one Village a City, nor a City a mere House. So twenty or an hundred or a thousand Parishes associate, cannot be a single Church of the first or lowest Order, being not capable of mutual Knowledge, Converse or personal present Communion: Nor are two or three Lay-men capable to be such a Church, for want of due matter. But supposing them capable, though a full and rich Church have advantage for Honour and Strength, yet a small▪ and poor one is ejusdem ordinis as truly a Church; and so is their Pastor, as Hierom saith of Rome and Eugubium; so Alexandria and Mijuma, &c. Gregory Neocaesar was ⟨p. 24⟩equally Bishop of nineteen at first, as after of all save nineteen in the City.
XV. As Logicians say of other Relations, the matter must be capable of the end, or it is not capable of the name and form; so is it here: e. g. It is no Ship that is made of meer Sponge or Paper, or that is no bigger than a Spoon; it is no Spoon that is as big as a Ship: One House is not a Village, nor one Village a City, nor a City a meer House. So twenty or an hundred or a thousand Parishes associate, cannot be a single Church of the first or lowest Order, being not capable of mutual Knowledge, Converse or personal present Communion: Nor are two or three Lay-men capable to be such a Church, for want of due matter. But supposing them capable, thô a full and rich Church have advantage for Honour and Strength, yet a small▪ and poor one is ejusdem ordinis as truely a Church; and so is their Pastor, as Hierom saith of Rome and Eugubium; so Alexandria and Mijuma, &c. Gregory Neocaesar was ⟨p. 24⟩equally Bishop of nineteen at first, as after of all save nineteen in the City.