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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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A. I thank you for this, saith the now Pope Innocent; this helps to strengthen my old worm-eaten Chair, weak in the joints, and ready to crack. Heresy and Schism must be avoided in the Universal Church, as well as in the Church in your Precinct; but if the Bishops in your several Precincts differ in their Judgments about Heresy and Schism as they have done, and will do, now what more probable way for union of Judgments, than to have them lye under an obligation to be determined by the reason of one; and who should that one be, but my self? this is but the same reason that Bellarmine hath given for Pontifex Maximus.
A. I thank you for this, saith the now Pope Innocent; this helps to strengthen my old worm-eaten Chair, weak in the joints, and ready to crack. Heresie and Schism must be avoided in the Ʋniversal Church, as well as in the Church in your Precinct; but if the Bishops in your several Precincts differ in their Judgments about Heresie and Schism as they have done, and will do, now what more probable way for union of Judgments, than to have them lye under an obligation to be determined by the reason of one; and who should that one be, but my self? this is but the same reason that Bellarmine hath given for Pontifex Maximus.
2ly. In one Diocese are some hundreds of Elders, all having the power of Jurisdiction ex aquo from Christ, as the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet ⟨p. 90⟩hath proved; but however, if this Doctor deny it, among these there may be many as godly men, of as solid reason and judgment, as is this one Prelate, yea it may be excel him in all, and in years his Elder too; yet all these must have their reasons and judgments subject to the determination of the reason of that one Prelate. I shall not applaud him for a man of an acuminated Intellect, that shall assert such an irrational Proposition.
2ly. In one Diocess are some hundreds of Elders, all having the power of Jurisdiction ex aquo from Christ, as the Learned Dr. Stillingfleet ⟨p. 90⟩