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 ...…

Argument 11. That which contains a virtual renunciation of our Church-state, and of the lawfulness of our Ministry, and Ordinances therein, is not to be admitted or allowed. But this also is done in the practice enquired into: For it is a professed conjunction with them in Church-Communion and Worship, by whom our Church-state and Ordinances are condemned as null: And this Judgment they make of what we do, affirming that we are gross Dissemblers, if after such a conjunction with them, we return any more unto our own Assemblies. In this condemnation we do outwardly and visibly join.

Argument 11. That which contains a virtual renunciation of our Church-state, and of the lawfulness of our Ministry, and Ordinances therein, is not to be admitted or allowed. But this also is done in the practice enquired into: For it is a professed conjunction with them in Church-Communion and Worship, by whom our Church-state and Ordinances are condemned as null: And this Iudgment they make of what we do, affirming that we are gross Dissemblers, if after such a conjunction with them, we return any more unto our own Assemblies. In this condemnation we do outwardly and visibly joyn.

§ 27. IF your Church-state be essentiated by a Covenant, to be subject to nothing else in Worship (even the Accidents which God bids men determine by his general Rules of Edification, Order, Decency, Love, Peace, Church-Custom, &c.) then I commend the generality of Nonconforming Ministers, that they set up no such Church-state: And they do well to renounce all that you do ill to invent and impose, while you talk against Imposition, and adding to God's Word such Humane Forms.

But yet it's an Error to hold, That if any unjustly condemn other Churches, ¹