A27045:256
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members…
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far heretics are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
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2. Many of your own writers acquit them of Heresy, and say, the difference is now found to be but in words, or little more.
2. Many of your own writers acquit them of Heresie, and say, the difference is now found to be but in words, or little more.
To what you say of their disclaiming us, unless we take the Patriarch of Constantinople for the Vice-Christ; you many ways mistake. 1. If this were true, that they rejected us, it were no proof that we are not of one universal Church. 2. They do not claim to be Vice Christi, the universal Governors of the Church: the title of universal Patriarch they extended but to the then Roman Empire; and that not to an universal Government, but Primacy. And many of them have been of brotherly charity to our Churches of late. Cyril I need not name to you, whom your party procured Murdered for being a Protestant. Meletius first Patriarch of Alexandria and then of Constantinople) was highly offended with the fiction of a submission of the Alexandrian Church to Rome, (under a ⟨p. 116⟩counterfeit Patriarch-Gabriel's name); and wrote thus of the Pope in his Letters to Sigismund King of Poland An. 1600. [Perspiceret Majestas tua, nos cum majoribus nostris, non ignorare (quem precaris ut agnoscamus) Pontificem scilicet Romanum veluti & Constantinopolitanum Pontificem, Pontificem Constant. Caeterosque Apostolicarum sedium Pontifices. Qui non unus omnium, sed inter omnes & ipse unus. — Unum universale Caput, quod sit D. N. Jesus Christus; alius esse non possit, nisi biceps aliquod sit corpus, aut potius monstrum corporis. Perspiceres, Rex serenissime, (ut interim de Concilio illo Florentino, veluti de re silentio digna taceam) non Nos, è Patria, tum Orientalium, tum Occidentalium dogmatibus traditionibusque quae per septem universalia concilia nobis consignarunt atque obsignarunt, egressos: Illos egressos, qui novitatibus in dies delectantur.] in the same Letters he commendeth Cyril. And what can a Protestant say more against the Vice-Christship, and your novelties?