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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
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.
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⟩part of his Diocess. 1Both the latter are meerly 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 marryed truly, is truly a Husband, though a Priest or Ring or some unnecessary accident was adjoyned.
- 1How a Parish Church is or is not part of a Diocesan Church.How a Parish Church is or is not part of a Diocesane Church.
Your reason is, 1. Ridiculously fallacious, 2. And if all were granted, reacheth not the Case.