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 ...…

These Terms were made for our Love and Communion, by Christ, the Maker of the Church, the Author and Perfecter of our Faiih. These Terms are few, sure, plain, possible; as Christs Yoke is easy, and his burden light, and his Commands not grievous: These Terms all Christians are actually agreed and united in. He knows not Mankind, that doth not know, That the ignorance, weakness, and badness of Man is such, as that it is impossible, that all good Christians should unite otherwise, upon things hard, dark, doubtful, and numerous. The Primitive Simplicity, Purity and Love, are the only Terms of Universal Concord in the Church on Earth.

These Terms were made for our Love and Communion, by Christ, the Maker of the Church, the Author and Perfecter of our Faiih. These Terms are few, sure, plain, possible; as Christs Yoke is easie, and his burden light, and his Commands not grievous: These Terms all Christians are actually agreed and united in. He knows not Mankind, that doth not know, That the ignorance, weakness, and badness of Man is such, as that it is impossible, that all good Christians should unite otherwise, upon things hard, dark, doubtful, and numerous. The Primitive Simplicity, Purity and Love, are the only Terms of Universal Concord in the Church on Earth.

But now by Preachers with wordy confidence, these only healing terms are accused as the way of the most damning Schism. O the subtlety of the Serpent that beguiled Eve! O the folly of Men that will be thus drawn away from the simplicity of Christ, by taking the only Remedy against Schism, to be the chiefest cause. They have made Associations and Confederacies of Men, to set up New Forms of Churches, Church-Government or Communion, by multitudes of Clergy-Laws or Canons of their own, to be necessary to Ministry and Communion, and consequently to avoid Schism, and consequently to Salvation: By which Arrogancy, and Impositions, and Arbitrary Laws, and Censures thereupon, the Christian World is now almost all broken into Sects, condemning and censuring one another; into Greeks, Muscovites, Armenians, Georgians, Nestorians, Jacobites, Abassines, Maronites, Papists, Protestants, &c. And of all these, the Papists pretend to a Power of Government by Legislation and Judgment over all the Christians on Earth; some placing it in the Pope as chief, some in a Council, or the College of Bishops, as chief; of which, the Pope is the prime Member; most in Pope and Council agreeing. This Sect unchurcheth all Christians, save