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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⟩days of our King Iohn, 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.

4. Therefore I would resolve, I will have no Local Communion with any Church in the use of this, or any Idolatry, but will Worship God in private, if I can have no better; but if I can, I will. And I separate not by this, from the most of the Church, but from a Tyrannical corrupt Sect or Schism: Yea, as to them, I hold mental Communion with them in Christianity, and in all that is good and sound, and renounce Communion with them in all that I know to be evil.