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 ...…

But in what sense is Episcopacy one? 1. Undoubtedly not as numerically in the personal Subjectum Relationis: One Bishop is not another; if you should say Paternity is One, none believe that one mans Relation of Paternity is another's. The Relation is an accident of its own Subject, as well as Quantity, Quality, &c. 2. Nor doth any man believe that many Bishops go to make up one Bishop in Naturals. 3. Nor did ever Cyprian hold or say that all Bishops go to make up one Politic Governing Aristocracy, as many go to make one Senate or Parliament, that hath a power of Legislation and Judgment by Vote as one Persona politica. He never owned such a humane Sovereignty.

But in what sence is Episcopacie one? 1. Undoubtedly not as numerically in the personal Subjectum Relationis: One Bishop is not another; if you should say Paternity is One, none believe that one mans Relation of Paternity is anothers. The Relation is an accident of its own Subject, as well as Quantity, Quality, &c. 2. Nor doth any man believe that many Bishops go to make up one Bishop in Naturals. 3. Nor did ever Cyprian hold or say that all Bishops go to make up one Politick Governing Aristocracie, as many go to make one Senate or Parliament, that hath a power of Legislation and Judgment by Vote as one Persona politica. He never owned such a humane Soveraignty.

But Episcopatus unus est, 1. In specie, all Bishops have one Office; 2. Objectivè: As the Catholic Church is one, whose welfare all Bishops ought to seek: 3. And so finaliter as to the remote End; and are bound to endeavour Concord. 4. And as effects, all are from one efficient institutor. As it may be said that all official Magistracy in England is one: 1. As from one King or summa potestas: 2. As described by one Law, and as Justices of one Species: 3. As all their Cities and Counties and Hundreds are but part of one Kingdom, whose welfare all are for: 4. And as they are all bound to keep as much common Concord as they can; if any mean more, they should tell us what: If any mean that all Bishops make one numerical Universal Government, they are heinous Schismatics, and the Kingdom is Sworn against their Judgment: And these Men damn them in damning Schismatics.