A27045:309
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
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.
The word [Universitas] is all that you translate in your comment, [the whole visible Church] As if you knew not that there was a Roman Universality, & that Roman Councils were called Universal, when no Bishops out of that one Commonwealth were present; and that the Church in the Empire is oft called [the whole Church.] Yea [the Roman world] was not an unusual phrase. And I pray you tell me, what power Valentinian had out of the Empire? who yet interposeth his authority there, [Nequid praeter authoritatem sedis istiusilli•itum, &c.] [& ut p•x ubique servetur.] And in the end, it is All the Provinces, that is, the University that he extends his precepts to. 7. And for that annexed [that without the Emperors Letters, his authority was to be of force through France; for what shall not be lawful, &c.] I Ans. No wonder: •or France was part of his Patriarchal, and the Laws of the Empire had confirmed his Patriarchal power: and those Laws might seem, with the reverence of Synods, without new Letters, to do ⟨p. 167⟩much: But yet it seems, that the rising power needed this extraordinary secular help: Hilary it seems with his Bishops thought, that even to his Patriarch he owed no such obedience as Leo here by force exacteth. So that your highest witness (Leo by the mouth of Valentinian) is for no more then a Primacy, with a swelled power in the Roman Universality; but they never meddled with the rest of the Christian world: It seems by all their writings and attempts, this never came into their thoughts.
The word [Vniversitas] is all that you translate in your comment, [the whole visible Church] As if you knew not that there was a Roman Vniversality, & that Roman Councils were called Vniversall, when no Bishops out of that one Commonwealth were present; and that the Church in the Empire is oft called [the whole Church.] Yea [the Roman world] was not an unusuall phrase. And I pray you tell me, what power Valentinian had out of the Empire? who yet interpos•th his authority there, [Nequid praeter authoritatem sedis istiusilli•itum, &c.] [& ut p•x ubique servetur.] And in the end, it is All the Provinces, that is, the Vniversity that he extends his precepts to. 7. And for that annexed [that without the Emperours Letters, his authority was to be of force through France; for what shall not be lawfull, &c.] I Ans. No wonder: or France was part of his Patriarchae, and the Laws of the Empire had confirmed his Patriarchal power: and those Laws might seem, with the reverence of Synods, without new Letters, to do