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 ...…

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.

LXXV. 25. If faithful Pastors and People are setled in concord, and the higher Powers make a Law to depose and eject them without just cause (as Multitudes were in many Emperours dayes, and Multitudes by the Interim in Germany in Charles the fifths time; and Multitudes in the Palatinate by Ludovicus, and in too many other Countreys) those that leave the Temples and Tythes to the Magistrate, but cleave to their old Pastors in forbidden meetings (called Conventicles) supposing the Pastoral Relation not dissolved (as the Ioannites clave to Chrysostom) do not thereby separate from the Catholick 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.

LXXVI. 26. If the Law command all to take one man for his Pastor, and a Parent command his Child, or a Husband his Wife to take another and not that, and the Child or Wife know not which should be obeyed, and whether the choice belong more to the Domestic, or the Public Government, it is not a separating from Christ, which way ever such an one shall go.

LXXVI. 26. If the Law command all to take one man for his Pastor, and a Parent command his Child, or a Husband his Wife to take another and not that, and the Child or Wife know not which should be obeyed, and whether the choice belong more to the Domestick, or the Publick Government, it is not a separating from Christ, which way ever such an one shall go.