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 ...…

If any one think that my Answers to him, favour of too much disrespect, (which I fitted merely to the Words I answered) confessing my imprudence and liableness to such faultiness; I desire that none will approve my failings, blame me for them, but do not therefore justify true Schism, and blame the cause of Love and Catholic Communion.

If any one think that my Answers to him, favour of too much disrespect, (which I fitted meerly to the Words I answered) confessing my imprudence and liableness to such faultiness; I desire that none will approve my failings, blame me for them, but do not therefore justifie true Schism, and blame the cause of Love and Catholick Communion.

As to the mention of former miscarriages, which arose from the Spirit and Principles of Division; the Drs. Argument led me to mention them so necessarily, that I must else have wronged the Cause and Truth Defended: And I had great reasons, I thought, both for that, and for this Defence, which I shall next enumerate.

IV. I am not so blind as not to see inconveniences that abusers will raise from all that I have said. But while I put those into one end of the Balance, I have so much to put into the other, as with my Conscience quite weigheth down. I know that men have already made tenfold worse use of our Silence in this Case; and the Opinion, 1. That we were all for the old Seditions and Convulsions, And 2. that we are now o• •he Dividers mind, than ever they did of our writing against them. And I have said so much against the active violent Dividers, that should I say nothing against the Passive, I should be partial, and seem a Sectary my self. Ovid taught me when I was a Child, That Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes. Stant tamen illa suis omnia tuta locis.