Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 9j ] ' Aliens from the Church, thougH they be rejected ' and feem feparated from their Society and Corn- ' munion, by another more powerful part of the 'Church, which cloth obtain tl'le Government. (How much more moderate and found is c ajfan– der, than fuch as Mr. Dodrve/1.) And Pag. 79I. he faith the fame of. the Oriental Churches, and the Ethiopians that are not under the Pope. And he frill fpeaketh fo cauteloufiy, that it is not eafie to underfrand how far he ·took the Papacy to be neceffary. Yet forr.etirne he only excuferh the unwilling departers from Rome , and aHertetb, · Confult. de Pant. Ram: p 93 I. 'That it is not alien ' from the con.fent of the ancient Church , that ' Obedience to our Chief or Supream Redor the 'Succe!for of St. Peter in Governing and Feeding ' rhe Church, is required to the Unity of this , ' external Church : And it is not only Primacy of ' Order, but Obedience to one Chief Ruler, tha~ he Pleads for. And in his Epifile to Lindamu, - ' and frequently he frill profeffeth only to defire fome Reformation in the Roman Church~ but never to depart from it, 'nor own thofe that do. Chap. VI. Grotius.·s 'Judgment in hiJ own -, ~¥orcls. . §. I. TO give you Grotiuis]udgment to the full, would be t.o tranfcribe many . Books: I !hall choofe fome pl~in Paffages. . Di(cujfione Apologet. Ri,vet. p. 255. < Thofe that 'knewGrotiw., knew that he always \vi{hed for 'the refiitution ofChrifiians into one and rbe fame 'Body.

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