Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

( 389] neceffary~ that we all WorihipGod in one Lan: guage when all underfiand it not, or that we all ufe the fame Tranflations , Litutgy, or words of Prayer or Preaching, or all wear the fame fort of Garments, and an hundred fuch {ikg : And to fi. Ience all that.do not, or rejeCt them from Catho· lick Communion is the like hypocritical Diabo– lifm; and in that way,the Devil and the.Pope are the greacefi Vniters, that is, ' Dividers and De11royers in the World. XXXV. The Vniverfal Church containeth many particular Churches throughout the World. · This none denieth. As a Kingdom bath many Cities and Corporations. .XXXVI. Thefe particular Churches Parts of · ' the Univerfal, have a difiinct confiitutive ·Form ': That is, Chrill: only is Soveraign of the Univer– fal, but his Officers are the particular confiitutive ruling part of the particular ; though under Chrift. King and Subjects only are Efiencial to a King– dom : But aMayor, Bailiff,or other chief Offjcer, and the common Citizens are Efiential to aCity. · And to call a man Chief or Head of a Family or City, that is no King, is no Treafon, but to claim the Royalty is. · XXXVII. Therefore there is more neceffary to Communion in a parcicular Church as a Meml: ·er of ir, than to Catholick Communion. Viz... · He mufi: confent ro his Relation and Submiffion to the particular Pafi:ors of that Church ; and to meet at the fame time and place , and joyn in · all the neceifary Parts of 'Publick Worlhip with them: Etfe local Communion will be impoffible• .Therefore it is injurious ignorance whic.hmain-' tameth of late, that he th4t feparateth from or is · C c 3 · • · juftlY. ·' ·~

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