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 ...…

I wrote you presently an Answer, but your Messenger never more called for it; by which I supposed that you changed your purpose: If yet you will send for it, I will send it you. The Breviate of it is this: 1. I do not feignedly, but from my heart, accept your manner of Reproof: It is honest and friendly; and I am truly thankful to you for it: Tho I am thought to be too plain and sharp, I can bear twice as much as I use. It's foolish pride that maketh us grudge at a friendly, tho sharp reprehension.

I wrote you presently an Answer, but your Messenger never more called for it; by which I supposed that you changed your purpose: If yet you will send for it, I will send it you. The Breviate of it is this: 1. I do not feignedly, but from my heart, accept your manner of Reproof: It is honest and friendly; and I am truly thankful to you for it: Tho I am thought to be too plain and sharp, I can bear twice as much as I use. It's foolish pride that maketh us grudg at a friendly, tho sharp reprehension.

But your mis-information tells me the pitiful Case of most in the World: Your honest Reproofs are founded on abundance of untrue Conceits: There are about Twenty Untruths, through mistake, in matter of Fact, in your Letter: And how gross are many of them? As that I write not against Persecution, which I scarce over write a book that hath not much against it: and this book it self doth fully confute you: And that I oppose not, but encourage divers things; which I know not the man that hath said half so much against: And you carry it all along, as if I were your Accuser for not going to the public Churches, when I am a mere Defendant against your Accusations, and plead the Cause of the Universal Church, as not deserving an Excommunication; and of many poor ⟨image 123⟩weak women, and young people, that would be drawn to renounce all Church-Worship in England, for fear of Idolatry, or a Curse from God.

But your mis-information tells me the pitiful Case of most in the World: Your honest Reproofs are founded on abundance of untrue Conceits: There are about Twenty Untruths, through mistake, in matter of Fact, in your Letter: And how gross are many of them? As that I write not against Persecution, which I scarce over write a book that hath not much against it: and this book it self doth fully confute you: And that I oppose not, but encourage divers things; which I know not the man that hath said half so much against: And you carry it all along, as if I were your Accuser for not going to the publick Churches, when I am a meer Defendent against your Accusations, and plead the Cause of the Universal Church, as not deserving an Excommunication; and of many poor