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 ...…

A. I thought communicating ordinarily in Holy Offices, had gone for an owning of Communion: If it do not, would you would tell us how to know who are of your Church.

§. 15. P. 13. Saith he (Church-Communion does not consist in particular Acts of Communion, which can be performed among those who are present and Neighbours, but in membership: Now as a member is a member of the whole Body (not merely of any part of it, &c.) All the Subjects of England who never saw nor conversed with each other, are members of the same Kingdom.]

§. 15. P. 13. Saith he (Church-Communion does not consist in particular Acts of Communion, which can be performed among those who are present and Neighbours, but in membership: Now as a member is a member of the whole Body (not meerly of any part of it, &c.) All the Subjects of England who never saw nor converst with each other, are members of the same Kingdom.]

A. 1. That word [merely] hath more Craft than Justice or Honesty: Merely signifieth Only I suppose; and if he would make his Reader think that they that are for single Church peculiar membership and consent, do take themselves to be [merely or only] members of those single Churches, and not of the Universal, it is shameless injury.

A. 1. That word [meerly] hath more Craft than Justice or Honesty: Meerly signifieth Only I suppose; and if he would make his Reader think that they that are for single Church peculiar membership and consent, do take themselves to be [meerly or only] members of those single Churches, and not of the Universal, it is shameless injury.