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 ...…

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.

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 Ballance, 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.

1. Truth, and Love, and Peace, will be good, when men have said and done their worst against them: And I owe much more than this to their honour and defence. Buy the Truth, and sell it not, is an old Precept: These three are the very sum of all Religion, and must not be forsaken or betrayed.