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 ...…

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.

LIV. 4. Some separate as to place, locally and not mentally, some mentally and not locally, and some both: He that daily observeth the outward Communion of the Church, and yet taketh it for no Church, or denieth its Faith, Hope or essential Duty, separateth indeed. All those men that live unbelievingly, atheistically, wickedly, that in their converse prate against the Scripture and immortality of the Soul, and that hate and persecute serious Godliness, are damnably separated from Christ, and therefore from the Catholic Church, and are so to be esteemed so far as this is known, though when it is unknown, the Church can take no notice of it.

LIV. 4. Some separate as to place, locally and not mentally, some mentally and not locally, and some both: He that daily observeth the outward Communion of the Church, and yet taketh it for no Church, or denyeth its Faith, Hope or essential Duty, separateth indeed. All those men that live unbelievingly, atheistically, wickedly, that in their converse prate against the Scripture and immortality of the Soul, and that hate and persecute serious Godliness, are damnably separated from Christ, and therefore from the Catholick Church, and are so to be esteemed so far as this is known, thô when it is unknown, the Church can take no notice of it.