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 ...…

2. That which hindereth the Churches Edification by the Rulers fault, it may be the Peoples duty to obey for a greater good: For instance, •t is less edifying to use our old singing Psalms, than a better Version: And yet for Concord, if the Ruler appoint them, the People must use them; because Concord with that imperfection, is better than to sing every one a several better Version, or divers at once: so a faulty Translation of Scripture, a weak Sermon, an inconvenient hour and place, when Concord is necessary, and cannot be had in the more edifying circumstances, it must be had in the best way we can. If the Sheriff appoint an unfit time and place to meet to choose Parliament-men; it's a duty to comply, rather than not to meet at all; every evil so far excludeth good: And yet we must not renounce Communion in all good, where men mix any evil, left we also give over all good our selves.

2. That which hindereth the Churches Edification by the Rulers fault, it may be the Peoples duty to obey for a greater good: For instance, •t is less edifying to use our old singing Psalms, than a better Version: And yet for Concord, if the Ruler appoint them, the People must use them; because Concord with that imperfection, is better than to sing every one a several better Version, or divers at once: so a faulty Translation of Scripture, a weak Sermon, an inconvenient hour and place, when Concord is necessary, and cannot be had in the more edifying circumstances, it must be had in the best way we can. If the Sheriff appoint an unfit time and place to meet to chuse Parliament-men; it's a duty to comply, rather than not to meet at all; every evil so far excludeth good: And yet we must not renounce Communion in all good, where men mix any evil, left we also give over all good our selves.

3. Christ giveth gifts to men now in the due use of means, and not by miracle: Therefore he giveth them in great diversity, and by hard Study, and long Time, Heb. 5