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 ...…

10. How are your Parish or Diocesan Church members known to your selves or any others? Are all that dwell in the Parish or Diocese your Church members? Then Atheists, Sadducees, Hobbists, and all vicious men and thousands that never communicate are such: Yea those that you call Separatists. ⟨p. 13⟩If it be every transient Communicant, have you a proper Pastoral care of every Travellers Soul that so communicates with you? You after plead that his very ordinary Communion maketh him not a member, if he be unwilling to be one. And is not his consent then necessary? Or if ordinary Communion be the test (how few then of great Parishes are of the Church) yet that is because such Communion signifieth their Consent to your over-sight of them.

10. How are your Parish or Diocesan Church members known to your selves or any others? Are all that dwell in the Parish or Diocess your Church members? Then Atheists, Sadducees, Hobbists, and all vicious men and thousands that never communicate are such: Yea those that you call Separatists. ⟨p. 13⟩If it be every transient Communicant, have you a proper Pastoral care of every Travellers Soul that so communicates with you? You after plead that his very ordinary Communion maketh him not a member, if he be unwilling to be one. And is not his consent then necessary? Or if ordinary Communion be the test (how few then of great Parishes are of the Church) yet that is because such Communion signifieth their Consent to your over-sight of them.

§. 9. But it's much to be approved which p. 5. and oft he saith, that to be taken into Covenant with God, and to be received into the Church is the very same thing, as to the Universal Church. By which all his gross Schismatical Accusations afterwards are confuted. No man then is out of the Church that is not out of the Baptismal Covenant, either by not taking it, or by renouncing some Essential part of it? And when will he prove, that to take him, rather than Dr. Bates that was cast out, to be a Teacher or Pastor at Dunstans, or to take this man and not another to be the Lawful Bishop or Priest, and to obey him in every Oath and Ceremony, is an Essential part of the Baptismal Covenant, or of Christianity? But such a rope of Sand, as Mr. Dodwell and this man tie together, to bind men to their Sect, will serve turn with some that know not who speaks Truth, by any surer way than prejudice.