A27045:509
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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He adds a weighty reason [si enim hoc dici licenter permittitur, honour Patriarcharum omnium negatur. Et cum fortasse is in errore periit qui Universalis dicitur, nullus jam Episcopus remansisse in statu veritatis invenitur] or as more plainly before c. 76. fol. 180. in the Epist. to the Emperor Maurice [si igitur illud nomen in ea Ecclesia sibi quisquam arripuit, quod apud bonorum omnium judicium fuit: Universa ergo Ecclesia, quod absit, à statu suo corruit, quando is qui appellatur Universalis cadit] The reason is plain, because the Head of every political society is essential to it: and therefore if the Head of the Universal Church fall away to Heresy or Infidelity, the Church falls: as Bellarmine knew when he told us, that if the Pope should err in determining, the Church would be bound to take evil for good, and vice for virtue.
He adds a weighty reason [si enim hoc dici licenter permittitur, honor Patriarcharum omnium negatur. Et cum fortasse is in errore periit qui Vniversalis dicitur, nullus jam Episcopus remansisse in statu veritatis invenitur] or as more plainly before c. 76. fol. 180. in the Epist. to the Emperour Maurice [si igitur illud nomen in ea Ecclesia sibi quisquam arripuit, quod apud bonorum omnium judicium fuit: Vniversa ergo Ecclesia, quod absit, à statu suo corruit, quando is qui appellatur Vniversalis cadit] The reason is plain, because the Head of every political society is essential to it: and therefore if the Head of the Universal Church fall away to Heresie or Infidelity, the Church falls: as Bellarmine knew when he told us, that if the Pope should erre in determining, the Church would be bound to take evil for good, and vice for vertue.
He proceeds in the same Epist. ad Maur. Imperat. [Sed absit à Cordibus Christianorum nomen istud blasphemiae, &c.] [Far be this name of blasphemy from the hearts of Christians, &c.]
And after again saith [Sed nullus eorum unquam. hoc singularitatis vocabulum assumpsit, nec uti consensit] That none of