A27069:55
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ ... or, the Pope of Rome and his subjects as such? : in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway ..., 1679
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Ans. All that belongs to a notifying definition.
R. B. 3. If to be only in Voto resolved to be of a particular Church, will serve; then inexistence is not necessary: To be only in Voto of the Catholic Church, proveth no man a member of it, because it is terminus diminuens, but the contrary. Seeing then by your own confession, inexistence in a particular Church, is not of necessity to inexistence in the Catholic Church, why do you not only mention it in your definition, but confine the Church to it?
R. B. 3. If to be only in Voto resolved to be of a particular Church, will serve; then inexistence is not necessary: To be only in Voto of the Catholick Church, proveth no man a member of it, because it is terminus diminuens, but the contrary. Seeing then by your own confession, inexistence in a particular Church, is not of necessity to inexistence in the Catholick Church, why do you not only mention it in your definition, but confine the Church to it?
W. J. I make them actually inexistent in some visible assembly, according to my definition, and in Voto only in a particular Church: Now every particular family or neighbourhood, nay two or three gathered in prayer, is an actual assembly.