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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
1. What UNITY in General is, and what This Unity of the spirit in special, I shall open in these following connected propositions.
1. WHat UNITY in General is, and what This Vnity of the spirit in special, I shall open in these following connexed propositions.
1. I must neither here confound the ordinary Reader by the many Metaphysical difficulties about UNITY; nor yet wholly pass them by, lest I confound him for want of necessary distinction.
2. UNITY is sometimes the attribute of an Universal, which is but Ens rationis, or a General Inadequate partial conception of an existent singular being: and so All men are ONE as to the species of Humanity; And all Living things are One in the Genus of Vitality: And so of Bodies, Substances, Creatures, &c. It is much more than this that we have before us.
2. UNITY is sometimes the attribute of an Vniversal, which is but Ens rationis, or a General Inadequate partial conception of an existent singular being: and so All men are ONE as to the species of Humanity; And all Living things are One in the Genus of Vitality: And so of Bodies, Substances, Creatures, &c. It is much more than this that we have before us.