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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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5. It is now de fide that the true Sacrament is rightly taken under one kind (without the cup) as the Councils of Constance and Trent show. But the Catholic Church hath practised, and the Apostles and the Church taught otherwise, as the Council of Constance, and their Writers ordinarily confess.
5. It is now de fide that the true Sacrament is rightly taken under one kind (without the cup) as the Councils of Constance and Trent shew. But the Catholick Church hath practised, and the Apostles and the Church taught otherwise, as the Council of Constance, and their Writers ordinarily confess.
6. It is an Article of their faith (as appears in the Trent Oath) that we must never take and interpret Scripture, but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers]: But the Catholic ⟨p. 274⟩Church before these Fathers could not be of that mind: and the Fathers themselves are of a contrary mind: and so are many learned Papists.
6. It is an Article of their faith (as appears in the Trent Oath) that we must never take and interpret Scripture, but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers]: But the Catholick ⟨p. 274⟩Church before these Fathers could not be of that mind: and the Fathers themselves are of a contrary mind: and so are many learned Papists.
7. It is an Article of their faith, that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls there detained are holpen by the suffrages of the faithful. But the latter was strange to all the old Catholic Church (as Bishop Usher and others have proved) and the very being of Purgatory, was but a new, doubtful, indifferent opinion of some very few men, about Augustine's time.