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 ...…

Is it because we disown any Numerical Rulers? we own the King and his Magistrates; we own all that we can understand to be true Pastors; and if we are in doubt of their Calling, we resist them not, unless obeying Christ before them be resistance: But our Accusers loudly profess, that Usurpers are not to be owned; and if they go on the ground, that he hath right that the Prince is for, we would know, whether that hold in Turkey, in Italy, Spain, France, or only in England, or where? If it be where Princes are Orthodox, do they make all the People Judges of their Princes Orthodoxness? And we would know, whether EVERY BISHOPS and PRIESTS right, […] a true Minister, called of God, and set over us, be necessary to Salvation, to be believed or known by all the People? if it be, woe to us, that ever such men were set over us, whose right we cannot know: What abundance of things go to ⟨p. 54⟩make a Bishops or Priests right known! 1. That he hath capable sufficiency. 2. That he is a just Bishop, that's chosen by the King, the Dean and Chapter obediently consenting, & that the Clergy's and Peoples consent is unnecessary. 3. That the Diocesan species (over multitudes of Churches without any subordinate Bishop) is of Christ, or lawful. 4. That their work, according to the Canon, is lawful. 5. That all our Patrons have right to choose Pastors for all the People. 6. That they are true Pastors over them that consent not. 7. That if they prove worse far than Martial and Basilides, and be owned by the Bishops as they were, the people may not forsake them (pl•bs obsequens divinis pr•ceptis,) which saith Cyprian have most power to choose or refuse.

Is it because we disown any Numerical Rulers? we own the King and his Magistrates; we own all that we can understand to be true Pastors; and if we are in doubt of their Calling, we resist them not, unless obeying Christ before them be resistance: But our Accusers loudly profess, that Usurpers are not to be owned; and if they go on the ground, that he hath right that the Prince is for, we would know, whether that hold in Turky, in Italy, Spain, France, or only in England, or where? If it be where Princes are Orthodox, do they make all the People Judges of their Princes Orthodoxness? And we would know, whether EVERY BISHOPS and PRIESTS right, 〈…〉 a true Minister, called of God, and set over us, be necessary to Salvation, to be believed or known by all the People? if it be, wo to us, that ever such men were set over us, whose right we cannot know: What abundance of things go to