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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 38
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Sect. 38. E. B. Every Parish Church is part of the Diocesan: And if a Diocesan Church as such is not to be Communicated with, then a Parish Church as such is to be separated from; since there is the same reason of the parts as of the whole: And you must find out a new Logic before you can prove, that if the whole be corrupt, any of the parts are clean, and fit for our Communion.
Sect. 38. E. B. Every Parish Church is part of the Diocesane: And if a Diocesane Church as such is not to be Communicated with, then a Parish Church as such is to be separated from; since there is the same reason of the parts as of the whole: And you must find out a new Logick before you can prove, that if the whole be corrupt, any of the parts are clean, and fit for our Communion.
R. B. The name of Logic is incongruously used in such an Argument, as is so palpably fallacious. A Parish Church stands before us in three respects. 1. As it is a true Church of Christians, having all things Essential in Pastors and People. 2. As these Christians live in the bounds of a Parish. 3. As this Parish Church by the Laws of the Land is subject to the Diocesan, and so a ⟨p. 92⟩part of his Diocese. 1Both the latter are merely Accidental, and it hath all that is essential to a Church without them. As Mr. Jacob instanceth in Ordination, and so in Marriage; He that is married truly, is truly a Husband, though a Priest or Ring or some unnecessary accident was adjoined.
R. B. The name of Logick is incongruously used in such an Argument, as is so palpably fallacious. A Parish Church stands before us in three respects. 1. As it is a true Church of Christians, having all things Essential in Pastours and People. 2. As these Christians live in the bounds of a Parish. 3. As this Parish Church by the Laws of the Land is subject to the Diocesane, and so a ⟨p. 92⟩