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 ...…

45. The 140. Canon Excommunicateth them that deny the Canons obligation of absent Dissenters, which yet even many Papists deny of Councils Canons.

46. The last Canon Excommunicateth all that contemn these Canons, as taking them to be the work of a Company of Persons that conspired against Religious Godly men. All this huge Catalogue are here excommunicate.

47. If any part of all this be Schism, Mr. Dodwell and this man seem to teach Separation from the Church of England: Or if the late silencing, hunting and ruining of two thousand Ministers were Schism, and as bad as Bishop Taylor in Duct. Dubit. Mr. Hales of Eaton, Chillingworth, &c. say of the like, then these men make all the Church of England to be in as damnable a State as Adulterers and Murderers. Yea they make all damnable Schismatics that hold Communion with the Church of England; for that is their Sentence on them that communicate with Schismatics; viz. that they are guilty of their Schism.

47. If any part of all this be Schism, Mr. Dodwell and this man seem to teach Separation from the Church of England: Or if the late silencing, hunting and ruining of two thousand Ministers were Schism, and as bad as Bishop Taylor in Duct. Dubit. Mr. Hales of Eaton, Chillingworth, &c. say of the like, then these men make all the Church of England to be in as damnable a State as Adulterers and Murderers. Yea they make all damnable Schismaticks that hold Communion with the Church of England; for that is their Sentence on them that communicate with Schismaticks; viz. that they are guilty of their Schism.