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 ...…

Had not the MS. been against all Forms of Liturgy, but only against the real or supposed faults of the English one; and had it been only against owning the faults, and not against Communion in necessary Duty, I had not troubled you, by my Defence.

II. I did much approve of your brotherly motion to debate the Case friendly, on the perusal of his larger Writings. And tho your Letter came to me a week after the Book was printed, the Bookseller said he had sold but two, and I purposed thankfully to accept your offer, and (tho to my cost) to have done my best to stop the rest, and recall those two: But not knowing you, nor how to send to you, I must suppose that you retract your Motions, your Messenger not calling for my answer, as we appointed.

Remember, I beseech you, that the Dr. writeth for mental Communion in Faith and Love, with all true Churches, tho he write against outward Local Communion with almost all: And I crave your perusal of the first and third parts of this Book, against the Resolver of three Cases, &c. And if you find that all the Cases, in which I vindicate Local Separation to be no Schism, be not enough, bethink you what the Scripture meaneth by reprehended Heresy, Schism, and Division; and whether there be any such Sins; and whether they that are so much for Scripture-sufficiency, as not to communicate with a Mode, Order or Form of Words, which it prescribeth not, should set so light by it, as not to fear its many sharp Condemnations of the foresaid sins, and its frequent and vehement Exhortations to Unity and Communion of Saints, and to receive one another, as Christ received us, to the Glory of God.

Remember, I beseech you, that the Dr. writeth for mental Communion in Faith and Love, with all true Churches, tho he write against outward Local Communion with almost all: And I crave your perusal of the first and third parts of this Book, against the Resolver of three Cases, &c. And if you find that all the Cases, in which I vindicate Local Separation to be no Schism, be not enough, bethink you what the Scripture meaneth by reprehended Heresie, Schism, and Division; and whether there be any such Sins; and whether they that are so much for Scripture-sufficiency, as not to communicate with a Mode, Order or Form of Words, which it prescribeth not, should set so light by it, as not to fear its many sharp Condemnations of the foresaid sins, and its frequent and vehement Exhortations to Unity and Communion of Saints, and to receive one another, as Christ received us, to the Glory of God.