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 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.

But Episcopatus unus est, 1. In specie, all Bishops have one Office; 2. Objectivè: As the Catholick 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 Schismaticks, and the Kingdom is Sworn against their Judgment: And these Men damn them in damning Schismaticks.

The truth is, Cyprian de Unitate Ecclesiae (leaving out the Papists additions) is a good Book, and worthy to be read of all; and take Cyprian's Description of the Episcopacy of the Church which we must unite with, and the nature of that Union, and we would rejoice in such. But if Cyprian had lived to see either Arians or Donatists the greater number, or any Sect after call themselves the Church because that Princes set them up, and had seen them depose Chrysostom and such other, doubtless he would never have ⟨p. 53⟩