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 ...…

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.

2. The great success, and late prospering, on both sides of dividing Love-destroying Opinions (which I foretold in my Moral Prognostication) calleth loud for remedying attempts: And when is the Medicine seasonable, but when the Disease is most dangerous and common: They that go to Sea, carry Medicines against the Scurvy, and Flux; and they that go where the Plague reigneth, carry Antidotes against it, &c.

2. The great success, and late prospering, on both sides of dividing Love-destroying Opinions (which I foretold in my Moral Prognostication) calleth loud for remedying attempts: And when is the Medicine seasonable, but when the Disease is most dangerous and common: They that go to Sea, carry Medicines against the Scurvy, and Flux; and they that go where the Plague reingeth, carry Antidotes against it, &c.

3. The Ministerial calling layeth strong Obligations on us to fidelity, sowing Pillows, and saying peace to sin, and daubing with untempered mortar, are oft concluded with that Thunder-clap, Their blood will I require at thy hands: And I have been loath to desert the worst Malignants by despair, as Dogs and Swine: And shall I forsake the Children as such, because they cry, and are angry with the Mother because she hinders them from calling one another Bastards, or beating one another, or forsaking the house, because of one another's Presence? or is She the make-bate, because they cry for being parted in their frays?