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Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…
Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by L.L. for T. Robinson, 1657
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What hath been spoken concerning the union and communion of this Church,1 will ⟨p. 99⟩not I suppose, meet with any contradiction. Granting that there is such a Church, as that we speak of, Coetus praedestinatorum credentium, the Papists themselves will grant that Christ alone is its head, and that its union ariseth from its subjection to him, and dependence on him. Their modesty makes them contented with constituting the Pope in the room of Christ, as he is as it were a political head for government; they have not as yet directly put in their claim to his office as a mystical Head, influencing the body with Life and Motion: though by their figment of the Sacraments communicating grace, ex opere operato, and investing the original power of dispensing them in the Pope only, they have contended fair for it. But if any one can inform me of any other union, or communion of the Church, described as above, then these laid down, I shall willingly attend unto his instructions: In the mean time, to carry on the present discourse unto that which is aimed at, it is manifest, that the breach of this union must consist in these two things.
What hath been spoken concerning the union and communion of this Church,1 will ⟨p. 99⟩not I suppose, meet with any contradiction. Granting that there is such a Church, as that we speake of, Coetus praedestinatorum credentium, the Papists themselves will grant that Christ alone is its head, and that its union ariseth from its subjection to him, and dependance on him. Their modesty makes them contented with constituting the Pope in the roome of Christ, as he is as it were a politicall head for government; they have not as yet directly put in their claime to his office as a mysticall Head, influencing the body with Life and Motion: though by their figment of the Sacraments communicating grace, ex opere operato, and investing the originall power of dispencing them in the Pope only, they have contended faire for it. But if any one can informe me of any other union, or communion of the Church, described as above, then these laid downe, I shall willingly attend unto his instructions: In the mean time, to carry on the present discourse unto that which is aimed at, it is manifest, that the breach of this union must consist in these two things.