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 ...…

VIII. To set up any universal Legislators and Judge, (Pope or Council) is to set up an Usurper of Christs Prerogative, called by many a Vice-Christ or an Antichrist; and as bad as making one man or Senate the Sovereign of all the Earth; and to attempt the setting up of such or any foreign Jurisdiction in this Land, is to endeavour to perjure the whole Kingdom that is sworn against it in the Oath of Supremacy, and sworn never to endeavour any alteration of Government in Church or State in the Corporation Oath, the Vestry Oath, the Militia Oath, the Oxford Oath, with the Uniformity Covenants: And if any should endeavour to introduce such a foreign Jurisdiction who themselves have had a hand in driving all the Kingdom to all these Oaths against it, I doubt whether all the Powers of Hell can devise a much greater crime against Clergy, Cities, and all the Land. Good reason therefore had Doctor Isaac Barrow to write against it as he hath done, and to confute Mr. Thorndike, and all such as of late go that pernicious way, by the pretence of Church Union and Communion. As if one universal Sovereign and Legislator and Judge, were not enough to unite Christs Kingdom, or man could mend his universal Laws, and could not stay for his final judgment; and Churches and Kingdoms might not till then be ruled without one humane universal Sovereign by necessary and voluntary agreement among themselves.

VIII. To set up any universal Legislators and Judge, (Pope or Council) is to set up an Usurper of Christs Prerogative, called by many a Vice-Christ or an Antichrist; and as bad as making one man or Senate the Soveraign of all the Earth; and to attempt the setting up of such or any forreign Iurisdiction in this Land, is to endeavour to perjure the whole Kingdom that is sworn against it in the Oath of Supremacy, and sworn never to endeavour any alteration of Government in Church or State in the Corporation Oath, the Vestry Oath, the Militia Oath, the Oxford Oath, with the Uniformity Covenants: And if any should endeavour to introduce such a forreign Jurisdiction who themselves have had a hand in driving all the Kingdom to all these Oaths against it, I doubt whether all the Powers of Hell can devise a much greater crime against Clergy, Cities, and all the Land. Good reason therefore had Doctor Isaac Barrow to write against it as he hath done, and to confute Mr. Thorndike, and all such as of late go that pernicious way, by the pretence of Church Union and Communion. As if one universal Soveraign and Legislator and Judge, were not enough to unite Christs Kingdom, or man could mend his universal Laws, and could not stay for his final judgment; and Churches and Kingdomes might not till then be ruled without one humane universal Soveraign by necessary and voluntary agreement among themselves.