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 ...…

LXIII. 13. When the Church first set up Patriarchs, Metropolitans, General Councils, Monasteries, Parish Churches distinct from Cathedrals, Organs, New Liturgies, and multitudes of Ceremonies, this was a departing or separating from the contrary Church way which was there before, was it therefore Schism?

LXIV. 14. When Socrates tells us of some Countries that had Bishops in the Country Villages (like our Parishes) was it a damning Schism to separate from this custom, by decreeing that even small Cities should have no Bishops, Ne vilescat nomen Episcopi? or when the Chorepiscopi were put down, where they had been?

LXIV. 14. When Socrates tells us of some Countreys that had Bishops in the Countrey Villages (like our Parishes) was it a damning Schism to separate from this custome, by decreeing that even small Cities should have no Bishops, Ne vilescat nomen Episcopi? or when the Chorepiscopi were put down, where they had been?

LXV. 15. If a man separate not from any thing essential to the Church of England, he separateth not from that Church, though he refuse that which is its Accidents, or some Integral parts: We are charged with separating from the Church of England, as if it were a matter of fact beyond dispute, and scorned for denying it, even by them that will not tell us what they mean by the Church of England, or by Separation. By the Church of England we mean the Christian Kingdom of England, or all the Christians in England, as living in one land, under one Christian King who Governeth them by the Sword, which includeth their Concord among themselves in true Christianity; we are Christians, we profess agreement in Christianity with all Christians we are under the same King as they are, and profess subjection, and take; the same Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; yea, we are not charged with differing in any thing called Doctrinal from their Thirty Nine Articles; but we disown certain late Covenants and Oaths which are not Twenty three Years old, and the Subscription to one Canon about the Innocency of all in their Liturgy; now either these new Oaths, Covenants and Canon, Liturgy and Ceremonies are essential to the Church of England, or not; If yea, then, 1. It's a poor humane Church, made by them that made these Oaths, Liturgy and Ceremonies. 2. And then it's a new upstart Church, and no man can answer the Papists where it was before Luther, or before Henry 8. yea, if its essentials were made by this King and Parliament, 1662. then the present Church is no older: But if these things be indifferent, or not essential to the Church, then to separate only from these, is not to separate from the Church.