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 ...…

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.

LXX. 20. If it prove as hard to know who is the true Pastor in a competition of Pretenders, as it was to know which was the true Pope, when there were two or three, (above twenty times) or whether, e. g. Optandus was true Bishop of Geneva that knew not Letters, or whether Duke Heribert's Son consecrated in Infancy was Arch-Bishop of Rhemes, or any other Infant consecrated be a Bishop, (officiating per alios, Surrogates, Chancellors, Officials, &c.) it is not here a Separation from Christ to separate from either of