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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. That is not an actual belief of the particulars, which may consist with the actual belief of the contradictory: But a mere belief of the General Proposition may consist i h the contradictory to the belief of particulars. Ergo, &c.
3. That is not an actual belief of the particulars, which may consist with the actual belief of the contradictory: But a meer belief of the General Proposition may consist i h the contradictory to the belief of particulars. Ergo, &c.
But he comes upon me with some instances so worded, as may deceive the ignorant.
1. Saith he, Doth not this Proposition, Omne animal vivit, contain the substance of these truths, Equus vivit, Leo vivit, Aquila vivit, &c?
Answ. No surely, unless by substance, you mean not the other Proposition, but somewhat else, what you list; for it containeth not the very subject, that there is such a thing as Equus, Leo, Aquila in being, and that they are animalia. May not a man that never heard or believed that there was such a creature as an Eagle, Lyon, &c. (no more than a Unicorn or Phoenix) yet know that omne animal vivit?