A27045:303
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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14. For what you allege from Gregory, I shall give you enough of him anon for your satisfaction, if you will be indifferent. As to your citation what can I say? A years time were little enough to search after your citations, if you should thus write but ⟨p. 161⟩many more sheets. (If a man had so much time and so little wit as to attend you) You turn me to Greg. cap. 7. ep. 63. but what Book, or what Indiction, you tell me not: But whatever it be, false it must needs be, there being no one Book of his Epistles (according to all the Editions that I have seen) where c. 7. and ep. 63. do agree or meet together. But at last I found the words in lib. 7. c. 63. ep. 63. To which I say, that either your great Gregory by [subject] meant that the Bishop of Constantinople was of an inferior Order, as the Patriarch of Alexandria and Antioch were to Constantinople, that yet had no Government of them; or else he could say and unsay: But I doubt not but this was all his sense. But if it had been otherwise, Constantinople and the Empire was not all the Christian world.
14. For what you alledge from Gregory, I shall give you enough of him anon for your satisfaction, if you will be indifferent. As to your citation what can I say? A years time were little enough to search after your citations, if you should thus write but ⟨p. 161⟩many more sheets. (If a man had so much time and so little wit as to attend you) You turn me to Greg. cap. 7. ep. 63. but what Book, or what Indiction, you tell me not: But whatever it be, false it must needs be, there being no one Book of his Epistles (according to all the Editions that I have seen) where c. 7. and ep. 63. do agree or meet together. But at last I found the words in lib. 7. c. 63. ep. 63. To which I say, that either your great Gregory by [subject] meant that the Bishop of Constantinople was of an inferiour Order, as the Patriarch of Alexandria and Antioch were to Constantinople, that yet had no Government of them; or else he could say and unsay: But I doubt not but this was all his sense. But if it had been otherwise, Constantinople and the Empire was not all the Christian world.