R. B. More wisdom still! which of these is the non-sense?1 Is it that the Pope pretendeth to be a Political Head? Consult. D. Lud. Moulins Jugulum Causae, and all Goldastus his three Volumes, with Chamier, Rivet, Whitaker, Blondel, and all that write against him. Or is it that he claimeth to be a Spiritual Head or Governor? Then all his own defenders and all our opposers of him wrong him, till Mr. Bagshaw came to reform this language: Or is it because he claimeth not to be the Constitutive Head of the Church? Ask all those Papists that say it is Essential to a member of the Church to be subject to the Pope. Reader, Is not this man uncharitable, that will neither give us his leave to use our old words, nor teach us better; but intimate that we speak nonsense, and he can speak better if he would! We have hitherto been used to call a Governed Church a Political Society, as distinct from a mere concourse or community of Christians. And why not? if [Greek or Hebrew] come from [Greek or Hebrew]: And if God hath prepared for them a City, whose God he is not ashamed to be called, Heb. 11. 16. And if it be well said, Phil. 1. 27. [Greek or Hebrew]: And if our Political conversations [Greek or Hebrew],2 be in Heaven, why may not a Church, at ⟨p. 159⟩least such a one as the Pope doth claim, be called a Political body or society! Or at least, why may not the Pope be said to lay such a claim? We have been used to call that Government Spiritual, which is done by the Word and Church Keys, and consequently the Governors Spiritual? And why must this be non-sense now? We have been used to call that Governor a Constitutive Head, without whom the society is not essentiated in specie, as a King in a Kingdom. O unkind Teacher, that will leave us all in this ignorance, and not vouchsafe one word to help us out.
R. B. More wisdom still! which of these is the non-sense?1 Is it that the Pope pretendeth to be a Political Head? Consult. D. Lud. Moulins Jugulum Causae, and all Goldastus his three Volumes, with Chamier, Rivet, Whitaker, Blondel, and all that write against him. Or is it that he claimeth to be a Spiritual Head or Governour? Then all his own defenders and all our opposers of him wrong him, till Mr. Bagshaw came to reform this language: Or is it because he claimeth not to be the Constitutive Head of the Church? Ask all those Papists that say it is Essential to a member of the Church to be subject to the Pope. Reader, Is not this man uncharitable, that will neither give us his leave to use our old words, nor teach us better; but intimate that we speak nonsense, and he can speak better if he would! We have hitherto been used to call a Governed Church a Political Society, as distinct from a meer concourse or community of Christians. And why not? if 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 come from 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: And if God hath prepared for them a City, whose God he is not ashamed to be called, Heb. 11. 16. And if it be well said, Phil. 1. 27. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: And if our Political conversations 〈non-Latin alphabet〉,2 be in Heaven, why may not a Church, at ⟨p. 159⟩least such a one as the Pope doth claim, be called a Political body or society! Or at least, why may not the Pope be said to lay such a claim? We have been used to call that Government Spiritual, which is done by the Word and Church Keyes, and consequently the Governours Spiritual? And why must this be non-sense now? We have been used to call that Governour a Constitutive Head, without whom the society is not essentiated in specie, as a King in a Kingdom. O unkind Teacher, that will leave us all in this ignorance, and not vouchsafe one word to help us out.
- 1Wisdom and humility in the dark.
- 2Phil. •• 26.
