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 ...…

As to this writing, it grieved me to write a Defence against Mr. Ralphson in Prison, and more when I heard that he was dead: But I knew no ⟨image 118⟩other means suitable against a printed Temptation, and Accusation, but a printed Antidote and Defence.

Mr. Warner hath since printed a further Accusation, with the same charge of Idolatry and false Worship, against all the Manner of Worship not instituted, and gives no Answer to my Confutation of it in Mr. Ralphs•n; and said so little, that I will not write for him, that cannot himself confute him.

The Twelve Arguments I understand, are likest to prevail most by the honour of Dr. Owens name, more than by any strength that is in them: I was willing, as long as I could, to believe that they were not his; they being as fallacious and frivolous as any of the rest, and one Error managed with above forty Mistakes. But when his own Friends that have more of his on the same Subject, (chiding me for Answering them) professed that they are his, I thought on Pauls case, Gal. 2. who openly opposed Peter, because he was to be blamed, lest his great Name should make the Separation the most prevalent, when Ba••abas and others were carried away to Dissimulation, and seeming to approve it.