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 ...…

2. It's the trick of deceivers in dispute, to prove ab obscuriore, and carry the Controversy into a darker Room, and to fish in troubled Waters. What if it were an hard Controversy, whether I must separate from Papists, from Bonner, Gardiner, &c. doth it follow, that it is as hard, whether I must separate from Bradford, Ridley, Hooper, and all those Martyrs, and all the Protestant Churches? With whom then shall I communicate?

2. It's the trick of deceivers in dispute, to prove ab obscuriore, and carry the Controversie into a darker Room, and to fish in troubled Waters. What if it were an hard Controversie, whether I must separate from Papists, from Bonner, Gardiner, &c. doth it follow, that it is as hard, whether I must separate from Bradford, Ridley, Hooper, and all those Martyrs, and all the Protestant Churches? With whom then shall I communicate?

3. I'll tell you what I would say, and do to such Papists: 1. I will prove their Objection false. And 1. that at this day all Papists in the World are but (as Bishop Br•mhall estimates) about a fourth part of the Christian World. 2. And that it was not till the ⟨image 122⟩days of our King John, and their Innocent the 3d, that a General Council decreed the Idolatry of Transubstantiation. 3. That a great part of their own never consented to this, and that few of the people understood or believed it. 4. That even this Canon was made against great numbers of Godly men, called Albigenses and Waldenses, who opposed them in this Idolatry.

3. I'le tell you what I would say, and do to such Papists: 1. I will prove their Objection false. And 1. that at this day all Papists in the World are but (as Bishop Br•mhall estimates) about a fourth part of the Christian World. 2. And that it was not till the ⟨image 122⟩