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 ...…

E. g. A Congregation or Nation of men of eminent Sanctity and Order, •ound Doctrine and Worship, may, by humane frailty take some one falsehood or uncertain thing to be necessary to Ministry or Communion (as they say some Churches unhappily of late reject all that own not the Antiquity of the Hebrew Points) I cannot have local Communion with that Church, for they will not receive me, unless I subscribe either a falsehood, (or that which I judge false;) but yet I highly honour and love them, and have mental Catholic Communion with them, when perhaps necessity may make me Locally join with a Church of far worse men and Order, that will impose no sin on me. 10. And I would advise these men, did they not despise my advice, for the Church of Englands sake, and their own, to retract their Errors, and not lay such a Snare before the People. Should you say in the Pulpit, [If the Church be guilty of any Schism by her Impositions, (oft named) Excommunications and silencing of Christs Ministers, and afflicting good people without just Cause, then I, and all that communicate with it and me, communicate in the guilt of Schism, and are all in as much danger of Damnation by it as Adulterers and Murderers] tell not your hearers this, for if you do, some will think you bid them separate or be damned, and only make a doubt whether most men have Noses or not.

E. g. A Congregation or Nation of men of eminent Sanctity and Order, •ound Doctrine and Worship, may, by humane frailty take some one falsehood or uncertain thing to be necessary to Ministry or Communion (as they say some Churches unhappily of late reject all that own not the Antiquity of the Hebrew Points) I cannot have local Communion with that Church, for they will not receive me, unless I subscribe either a falshood, (or that which I judge false;) but yet I highly honour and love them, and have mental Catholick Communion with them, when perhaps necessity may make me Locally join with a Church of far worse men and Order, that will impose no sin on me. 10. And I would advise these men, did they not despise my advice, for the Church of Englands sake, and their own, to retract their Errours, and not lay such a Snare before the People. Should you say in the Pulpit, [If the Church be guilty of any Schism by her Impositions, (oftnamed) Excommunications and silencing of Christs Ministers, and afflicting good people without just Cause, then I, and all that communicate with it and me, communicate in the guilt of Schism, and are all in as much danger of Damnation by it as Adulterers and Murderers] tell not your hearers this, for if you do, some will think you bid them separate or be damned, and only make a doubt whether most men have Noses or not.