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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
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.
3. He saith, p. 4. In this consists your fallacy, that you esteem none to be actually members of the universal Church, unless they be actual members of some particular Church, which I deny. Which is his mere fiction, of which I was so far from giving him any occasion, that I was ⟨p. 3⟩charging it as an error on himself; reasonably supposing that by Visible Assemblies he had meant Churches.
3. He saith, p. 4. In this consists your fallacy, that you esteem none to be actually members of the universal Church, unless they be actual members of some particular Church, which I deny. Which is his meer fiction, of which I was so far from giving him any occasion, that I was ⟨p. 3⟩charging it as an error on himself; reasonably supposing that by Visible Assemblies he had meant Churches.
4. Note that he maketh it essential to the members of the Catholic Church, that they depend on their lawful Pastors, and yet that it is but a virtual subjection to the Pope (by subjecting themselves to Christs manner of Government) which is essential. 1. Are not all Protestants and other Christians that own not the Pope, true members of the Church then, while they subject themselves in general to Christs manner of Government? 2. He subjecteth himself to no Governor, who doth it not to some existent individual: For the universal, existeth not but in the individuals. And if it be not necessary that the Pope be this individual then subjection to some other is more essential than to the Pope And who is that who must be preferred before him?
4. Note that he maketh it essential to the members of the Catholick Church, that they depend on their lawful Pastors, and yet that it is but a virtual subjection to the Pope (by subjecting themselves to Christs manner of Government) which is essential. 1. Are not all Protestants and other Christians that own not the Pope, true members of the Church then, while they subject themselves in general to Christs manner of Government? 2. He subjecteth himself to no Governour, who doth it not to some existent individual: For the universal, existeth not but in the individuals. And if it be not necessary that the Pope be this individual then subjection to some other is more essential than to the Pope And who is that who must be preferred before him?