The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.

SECT. XXII.

HEreby we may expound the Be∣ginning * 1.1 of his Votum pro Pace, where he tells us his judgement that the Church be one, non an mo tantum, sed & eâ commu∣nione quae conspici potest, & maximè conspi∣citur in Regiminis vinculo.—The ground of our common Divisions is, a conceit that the visible Church must be one visible Po∣litical Body having a visible Head, whe∣ther Pope, Council or whatever it be; which sets men still a tampering to do a thing neither possible nor desireable, no more then an Universal Civil Monarchy or other form of Government. All the world cannot much better be Governed in Ecclesiast••cals by one Head that in Civils. And if men will lament the state of the world, and cry out, Alas, we are distracted and torn in pieces, till they can get them un∣der one Universal Civil Government, they must permit us to think that the complainers are more distracted then the Church.

So page 7. (voti) he saith of Vincenti∣us his requisites and notes of true Catholi∣cisms, [Videbam ea manere in Ecclesia quae

Romanae convertitur] And his way to Peace pag. 9, is aut per Papae eximie boni authorita∣tem, aut Concilium universale, &c.] And p. 10. He professeth that be doth not no∣vum moliri opus, but add his helps to Cas∣sanders works.

And in his Dissertatio de summo Pontifice, p. 310, 311, 312. In answer to the Question p. 309. Quae sit ratio restituendi sacerdotii Ʋniversalis, & cum eo Sacerdotio unitatis, &c.] He saith [In Gubernatione obser∣vandum, eam specie quadam externa posse esse quasi Monarchiam; reipsa autem talem ut plus de Aristocratia trahat.]

Notes

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