A27045:426
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. And that all things that are revealed, and which we ought to believe, are not Essential to the Christian faith, and therefore that all are of the Church that hold these Essentials, and that such a distinction must be maintained, the Papists have still confessed, till lately, that disputing hath increased their novelties and errors.
2. And that all things that are revealed, and which we ought to believe, are not Essentiall to the Christian faith, and therefore that all are of the Church that hold these Essentialls, and that such a distinction must be maintained, the Papists have still confessed, till lately, that disputing hath encreased their novelties and errours.
Bellarmines and Costerus confession, I recited even now.
Guliel. Parisiensis in Operum pag. 9, 10, 11, 12. de fide, industriously proveth the necessity of distinguishing the fundamentals or essentials, from the rest of the points of faith: and it is they that constitute the Catholic faith, which he saith is therefore called Catholic or Universal, because it is the common faith, or the common foundation of Religion: And he proves that hence it is that the Catholic faith is but One, and found in all Catholics, these fundamentals being found in all.] By many arguments he proveth this.
Guliel. Parisiensis in Operum pag. 9, 10, 11, 12. de fide, industriously proveth the necessity of distinguishing the fundamentalls or essentialls, from the rest of the points of faith: and it is they that constitute the Catholick faith, which he saith is therefore called Catholick or Universal, because it is the common faith, or the common foundation of Religion: And he proves that hence it is that the Catholick faith is but One, and found in all Catholicks, these fundamentalls being found in all.] By many arguments he proveth this.