Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

You mistake when you say, It is so by the Law of the Land: You mistake again, when you say, it is so by the Canon: You mistake again, when you say, It is so in the common understanding of all. I formerly instanced in one of the sharpest Nonconformists, Old Mr. Humphrey Fen, of Coventry, who would say aloud, Amen, to all the Common-Prayer, save that for the Bishops; by which all there knew his mind: Whether it were right or wrong,¹ I now determine not. So here are Three more of your Mistakes.

1. 1VII, VIII, IX. Error.

4. You make all other reserves of our own, to be allowed neither by God or good men. Here are two more mistakes. 1. God maketh it our great duty to hold Communion with most,¹ or almost all Churches on Earth with such reserves; that is, to own them in all that is good, and disown all their evil, tho their Laws command the owning of them; without this reserve I would not join with yours, or any Church on Earth, that is, If my Communion were an owning of all their faultiness.

4. You make all other reserves of our own, to be allowed neither by God or good men. Here are two more mistakes. 1. God maketh it our great duty to hold Communion with most,¹ or almost all Churches on Earth with such reserves; that is, to own them in all that is good, and disown all their evil, tho their Laws command the owning of them; without this reserve I would not joyn with yours, or any Church on Earth, that is, If my Communion were an owning of all their faultiness.

1. 1X.XI. Error.