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 ...…

LXVIII. 18. If a Parishioner fall out with his Priest, and they go to Law about Tithes, Glebes, Words, &c. and the Suit be long, and the man dare not Communicate with him believing that he hateth him, though the animosity should be culpable, being but personal, his going from him to another Church is not separating from Christ; (for I hope that even Mr. Dodwell himself will not say that every Priest is Christ.)

LXVIII. 18. If a Parishioner fall out with his Priest, and they goe to Law about Tythes, Glebes, Words, &c. and the Suit be long, and the man dare not Communicate with him believing that he hateth him, thô the animosity should be culpable, being but personal, his going from him to another Church is not separating from Christ; (for I hope that even Mr. Dodwell himself will not say that every Priest is Christ.)

LXIX. 19. Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius, surely there is some qualification essential to the Ministry; if a man want that qualification, it is a Duty to separate from him as no Minister, e. g. When I came to Kidderminster, (after my subjection to six or seven worse) I found the Vicar, one reputed ignorant of the Fundamentals, (he was brought in by Sir Henry Blunt a Papist) who Preached but once a quarter, which most thought he might better have forborne, and his Curate Mr. Turner at Mitton Preached once a day, whom I found ignorant of the Catechism Principles by Conference, and he confessed he had but one Book, Musculus common places in English, and he said some of that to the People, and they took it for a Sermon; he lived by unlawful Marrying, infamous for Drinking and Quarrelling; he that had taken these for no Ministers, and separated from them, had not thereby separated from Christ or his Church Catholic.

LXIX. 19. Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius, surely there is some qualification essential to the Ministry; if a man want that qualification, it is a Duty to separate from him as no Minister, e. g. When I came to Kederminster, (after my subjection to six or seven worse) I found the Vicar, one reputed ignorant of the Fundamentals, (he was brought in by Sir Henry Blunt a Papist) who Preacht but once a quarter, which most thought he might better have forborn, and his Curate Mr. Turner at Mitton Preacht once a day, whom I found ignorant of the Catechism Principles by Conference, and he confest he had but one Book, Musculus common places in English, and he said some of that to the People, and they took it for a Sermon; he lived by unlawful Marrying, infamous for Drinking and Quarrelling; he that had taken these for no Ministers, and separated from them, had not thereby separated from Christ or his Church Catholick.