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 ...…

LXXIV. 24. If in a Cathedral Church one withdraw from their Service, because of their difference in singing, Ceremonies, &c. from the Parish Churches, though it be the Bishops Church that he separateth from, it is not as a Church, nor from any thing essential to it, e. g. Miles Smith Bishop of Gloucester (the famous Hebric••n, and chief in our Bibles Translation) declared and performed i•, that he would never come more to his Cathedral, because the Dean (in Laud time) kept up the Altar. Qu. Whether he separated from himself or his Church? Ubi Episcopus ibi Ecclesia: Who were the Separatists? They that followed the Bishop, or they that separated from him and kept to the Cathedral? The same I •ay of Williams Bishop of Lincoln that wrote against Altars.

LXXIV. 24. If in a Cathedral Church one withdraw from their Service, because of their difference in singing, Ceremonies, &c. from the Parish Churches, thô it be the Bishops Church that he separateth from, it is not as a Church, nor from any thing essential to it, e. g. Miles Smyth Bishop of Gloucester (the famous Hebric••n, and chief in our Bibles Translation) declared and performed i•, that he would never come more to his Cathedral, because the Dean (in Laud time) kept up the Altar. Qu. Whether he separated from himself or his Church? Vbi Episcopus ibi Ecclesia: Who were the Separatists? They that followed the Bishop, or they that separated from him and kept to the Cathedral? The same I •ay of Williams Bishop of Lincoln that wrote against Altars.

LXXV. 25. If faithful Pastors and People are settled in concord, and the higher Powers make a Law to depose and eject them without just cause (as Multitudes were in many Emperors days, and Multitudes by the Interim in Germany in Charles the fifths time; and Multitudes in the Palatinate by Ludovicus, and in too many other Countries) those that leave the Temples and Tithes to the Magistrate, but cleave to their old Pastors in forbidden meetings (called Conventicles) supposing the Pastoral Relation not dissolved (as the Joannites clave to Chrysostom) do not thereby separate from the Catholic Church: Had the Power been lawful that set up another way, when Dr. Gunning kept up his Meetings at Exeter House, it had not been a Separation from Christ that he then made.