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 ...…

LXXXVII. They seem to be themselves deceived by the Papists in exposition of Cyprian's words de Unit. Eccles. Unus est Episcopatus, &c. But they themselves seem to separate from Cyprian as a Schismatic, and consequently ⟨p. 52⟩from all the Church that hath profest Communion with him, and with all the Councils and Churches that joined with him: For Cyprian and his Council erred by going too far from the Schism and Heresy of others, nullifying all their Baptisms, Ordinations and Communions: And for this error they declared against the Judgment of the Bishop of Rome and other Churches; and they were for it condemned as Schismatics by the said Bishop: And here is a far wider Separation than we can be charged with. 2. And Cyprian's words came from the Mind that was possest with these opinions, and are expressive of his Inclination. 3. Yet they are true and good, understood as he himself oft expounds them; the Bishop of Oxford citeth some instances, many more are obvious, in which he opposeth the Bishop of Rome, saying, that none of them pretendeth to be a Bishop of Bishops; and limiting every man to his own Province, and saying that they were to give account to none but God, with much the like.

LXXXVII. They seem to be themselves deceived by the Papists in exposition of Cyprians words de Vnit. Eccles. Vnus est Episcopatus, &c. But they themselves seem to separate from Cyprian as a Schismatick, and consequently ⟨p. 52⟩from all the Church that hath profest Communion with him, and with all the Councils and Churches that joyned with him: For Cyprian and his Council erred by going too far from the Schism and Heresie of others, nullifying all their Baptisms, Ordinations and Communions: And for this errour they declared against the Judgment of the Bishop of Rome and other Churches; and they were for it condemned as Schismaticks by the said Bishop: And here is a far wider Separation than we can be charged with. 2. And Cyprians words came from the Mind that was possest with these opinions, and are expressive of his Inclination. 3. Yet they are true and good, understood as he himself oft expounds them; the Bishop of Oxford citeth some instances, many more are obvious, in which he opposeth the Bishop of Rome, saying, that none of them pretendeth to be a Bishop of Bishops; and limiting every man to his own Province, and saying that they were to give account to none but God, with much the like.