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 ...…

9. I have long found, that multitudes of our conscionable hearers, are settled in belief, that their Teachers take Parish-Communion for Sin, because they practice it not, even when they are commanded, and threatened, and punished: By which they are silently misled, till necessity force us to tell them otherwise. And then they Censure them as unconscionable Temporizers, and so they do all godly men that communicate in public.

9. I have long found, that multitudes of our conscionable hearers, are setled in belief, that their Teachers take Parish-Communion for Sin, because they practice it not, even when they are commanded, and threatned, and punished: By which they are silently misled, till necessity force us to tell them otherwise. And then they Censure them as unconscinable Temporizers, and so they do all godly men that communicate in publick.

10. I see how hard it is after, to undeceive all these.

11. Most of the Epistles of Paul, James, and Jude, Peter, and John, speak much and sharply against Church-dividers, and separators.

11. Most of the Epistles of Paul, Iames, and Iude, Peter, and Iohn, speak much and sharply against Church-dividers, and separaters.