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 ...…

Ans. To save those that are willing from the Poison of these Schismatical Doctrines, lapped up in confusion by men that abhor distinction, or understand not what they say; I will first lay down that truth that he fights against, with convincing evidence, and then show you the mischief of his false Doctrine and Application.

Ans. To save those that are willing from the Poyson of these Schismatical Doctrines, lapt up in confusion by men that abhor distinction, or understand not what they say; I will first lay down that truth that he fights against, with convincing evidence, and then shew you the mischief of his false Doctrine and Application.

§. 2. The confusion of these words [Church, Communion, Separation and Schism] which every one signify divers things, is the chief means to blind and deceive his Reader; whether it do so by himself I know not.

§. 2. The confusion of these words [Church, Communion, Separation and Schism] which every one signifie divers things, is the chief means to blind and deceive his Reader; whether it do so by himself I know not.

I. The Word Church signifieth sometime the universal Church; sometime a single Organized Church as part of it, and sometime humane combinations of such single Churches; and that into Diocesan, Classical, Provincial, Patriarchal, National, and Papal.