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 ...…

3. And suppose that they truly instance in many things amiss, in Order, Ceremony, Forms, Impositions, Defects; because these are sinful, he sinneth who communicateth with the Church which useth them, his presence signifying his approbation, specially if commanded to that end.

4. And so Renunciation of Communion being the Excommunication which one Church hath power to inflict on another, the sum is, I write against the unjust Excommunicators of one another. Their Executions are divers, but their Principles and Spirits too like, tho few of them know, or will know what manner of Spirit they are of. The uppermost Schismatics, like the uppermost Millstone, are the Active, and the nethermost the Passive part, between both which Truth and Peace is broken, and the Church pulverized. Both Parties have not power to burn the Excommunicate, or lay them in Goals, or defame them without open control: But the nethermost Party in this agrees, if not exceeds the other; That they renounce Communion with the whole Church on Earth for 1200, or 1300 years, and with almost all (Protestants as well as others) now: Whereas the Pope was taken to be intolerably arrogant when he excommunicated and interdicted, but rarely a whole Kingdom, or one King; but not all the Church on Earth.

4. And so Renunciation of Communion being the Excommunication which one Church hath power to inflict on another, the sum is, I write against the unjust Excommunicators of one another. Their Executions are divers, but their Principles and Spirits too like, tho few of them know, or will know what manner of Spirit they are of. The uppermost Schismaticks, like the uppermost Millstone, are the Active, and the nethermost the Passive part, between both which Truth and Peace is broken, and the Church pulverized. Both Parties have not power to burn the Excommunicate, or lay them in Goals, or defame them without open controul: But the nethermost Party in this agrees, if not exceeds the other; That they renounce Communion with the whole Church on Earth for 1200, or 1300 years, and with almost all (Protestants as well as others) now: Whereas the Pope was taken to be intollerably arrogant when he excommunicated and interdicted, but rarely a whole Kingdom, or one King; but not all the Church on Earth.