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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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And p. 179. [See how this Minister of the Devil is beside himself, and would draw us with him into the ditch of perdition? that writeth that Gods holy Priesthood is with only 13. or few more Bishops of Hildebrands: and that the Priesthood of all the rest through the world are separated from the Church of God: when certainly, not only the testimony of Gregory and Innocent, but the judgement of all the holy Fathers agree with that of Cyprian—that he is an Alien, profane, an enemy; that he cannot have God for his Father, that holdeth not the Unity of the Church: which he after describeth to have one Priesthood.] Et p. 181. [But some that go out from us say and write, that they defend the party of their Gregory: not the Whole, which is Christs, which is the Catholic Church of Christ.] And p. 180. [But our Adversaries (that went from us, not we from them) use thus to commend themselves—We are the Catholics, we are in the Unity of the Church.] So the Writer calls them Catholics, and us that hold the faith of the holy Fathers, that consent with all good men, that love peace and brotherhood,—us he ⟨p. 280⟩calls Schismatics and Heretics, and Excommunicate, because we resist not the King—] And p. 181. [Isidore saith, Etym. l. 8. The Church is called Catholic, because it is not as the conventicles of Heretics, confined in certain countries, but diffused through the whole world: therefore they have not the Catholic faith that are in a part, and not in the Whole which Christ hath redeemed, and must reign with Christ.] They that confess in the Creed, that they believe the holy Catholic Church, and being divided into parties hold not the Unity of the Church: which Unity, believers being of one heart and one soul, properly belongs to the Catholic Church.] So this Apol.
And p. 179. [See how this Minister of the Devil is beside himself, and would draw us with him into the ditch of perdition? that writeth that Gods holy Priesthood is with only 13. or few more Bishops of Hildebrands: and that the Priesthood of all the rest through the world are separated from the Church of God: when certainly, not only the testimony of Gregory and Innocent, but the judgement of all the holy Fathers agree with that of Cyprian—that he is an Alien, prophane, an enemy; that he cannot have God for his Father, that holdeth not the Unity of the Church: which he after describeth to have one Priesthood.] Et p. 181. [But some that go out from us say and write, that they defend the party of their Gregory: not the Whole, which is Christs, which is the Catholick Church of Christ.] And p. 180. [But our Adversaries (that went from us, not we from them) use thus to commend themselves—We are the Catholicks, we are in the Unity of the Church.] So the Writer calls them Catholicks, and us that hold the faith of the holy Fathers, that consent with all good men, that love peace and brotherhood,—us he