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 ...…

§. 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.

§. 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 tye together, to bind men to their Sect, will serve turn with some that know not who speaks Truth, by any surer way than prejudice.

§. 10. His Doctrine of Separation and gathering Churches out of Churches is anon to be considered: But whereas he adds, p. 7. [These men convert Christians from common Christianity, and the Communion of the Universal Church to Independency.]

§. 10. His Doctrine of Separation and gathering Churches out of Churches is anon to be considered: But whereas he addes, p. 7. [These men convert Christians from common Christianity, and the Communion of the Vniversal Church to Independency.]