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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.
Answ. Say you so? May not I see you asleep, and think that you are dead? Doth this Proposition, Omne animal vivit, include that there is such a Wight in being, as W. I. or ⟨p. 5⟩N. N? or that he is now alive? or that it is really a Man and not a Horse that is so called, any more than that Bucephalus was a Man? Yet doth he back these absurdities with advising me to a little more heed to what I write?
Note that page 9, he asserteth that, The object of implicit faith delivered in the Schools, is nothing save particular truths contained in substance under some general propositions; so that they be neither known nor believed distinctly and expressly; yet in confuso they are, by the knowledge or belief of their general proposition.
Note that page 9, he asserteth that, The object of implicite faith delivered in the Schools, is nothing save particular truths contained in substance under some general propositions; so that they be neither known nor believed distinctly and expresly; yet in confuso they are, by the knowledg or belief of their general proposition.
Answ. But there is a confused knowledge of particulars which is actual, of the Being of them, though not distinct, not fit or ripe for words to utter it: This is different from the knowledge of mere Generals; which is indeed no knowledge of the particulars, that any such are contained in those generals at all.
Answ. But there is a confused knowledg of particulars which is actual, of the Being of them, though not distinct, not fit or ripe for words to utter it: This is different from the knowledg of meer Generals; which is indeed no knowledg of the particulars, that any such are contained in those generals at all.