Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

- [ 193 J To conclude, this Gentleman hath yet an ea(ie · remedy againfi: all this :. He doth indeed frequent -: , lyprove . ( if you will believe him ) that though you have Faith ,that works by L'ove, and do all uher duty, ( that is in Love ·to God an'd Man ) ·you cannot be faved without external Communion, that is, fubjeetion to 'this humanly compaet:e'd Ca~ . tholick Church ; fo faid Pope NicholM long ago, yea and e/.EneM Sylvjm when Pim 2d, that · all ~ ther Graces and Duties will not fave a Man that is not fubjeet: to the.Bi(Pop of Rof!1e : But faith this Man; p. 13 ~ TheY, may eajily avoid the danger only by returning to the Catbolick.Vnity. Mark Catholic~ Vnity. National Unity will noe ferve : We grant. it. But what Catholick Vnityis, and whetherCa- 1 tholick Councils \Vith a Catholick Prelident that bath an Antecedent Power to call and oblige them, without which they are null, rebellious and punilhable, and to whom all Power efcheat– eth in the Intervals of Councils, whether I fay, this be neceffary toCa~holick Unity, or. to Ant~~ chriftian Church Tyranny is the doubt. , · I will conclude this with Dr. Iz.• Barrow's Theft's, P· 255· I I • Patriarchs are an Humane Inftittttion,. 2. As they were erelled by the Power and Pru;. _dence of llfen. fo they may be dijfolved by _the fame. · . 3· ~hey were ere&ed by the leave and coK~firmation of Prznces, and by the fame they may be deje&ed, if great reafon do appear. ; 4-· The Patriarchate of the Pope beyond his own · Province or Diocefs doth not Jubjift upon ·any Canon of ' a general Synod. · 5. He fan therefore claim no fuch ·Power otherwifo than upon hu 1~1111jion or .Ajfumption. · · u 3 6 . The

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