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 ...…

If not, there is some separation that is not so bad as Murder; and methinks the Doctor should forgive it for the success; for the Parish hereupon resolved to pull down the Church and build it new, a far better Fabric where the Dr. now Preacheth; and it drove me away that I preached there no more; Whether this new Church built where the old one had possession before, be not a Schismatical Separatist, I leave to him.

If not, there is some separation that is not so bad as Murder; and methinks the Doctor should forgive it for the success; for the Parish hereupon resolved to pull down the Church and build it new, a far better Fabrick where the Dr. now Preacheth; and it drove me away that I preacht there no more; Whether this new Church built where the old one had possession before, be not a Schismatical Separatist, I leave to him.

LII. 2. Local Separation without Mental can make no culpable Schism; for Nil nisi Voluntarium est morale; if a man be imprisoned or be sick and cannot come to the Church, it is innocent Separation; I have been at no Church this half year, much against my will, O that God would heal me of this Separation!

LIII. 3. If it must be mental Separation that must be culpable, then it is diversified according to the mental degree and kind; and no man separateth from the universal Church who separateth not from somewhat essential to it; to separate from its Integrals or Accidents may be culpable, but it's no Separation from the Church, no more than every breach of the Law is a Separation from the Kingdom.