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 ...…

If any will turn these Serious matters into Jest, and say, as Dr. Sail, that they will receive Greeks, Lutherans, &c. that come to their Communion, his Serious Readers will tell him, that so will most Sects receive ⟨p. 57⟩those that approve of their Communion and come to them: Joining with you signifieth that they are of your way therein; But will you go to their Churches and Communicate with them? You will receive the damned Schismatics if they come to you, when yet you make it damnable to join in their meetings with them. This quibbling beseems not grave men in great matters.

If any will turn these Serious matters into Jest, and say, as Dr. Say••ll, that they will receive Greeks, Lutherans, &c. that come to their Communion, his Serious Readers will tell him, that so will most Sects receive ⟨p. 57⟩those that approve of their Communion and come to them: Joyning with you signifyeth that they are of your way therein; But will you go to their Churches and Communicate with them? You will receive the damned Schismaticks if they come to you, when yet you make it damnable to joyn in their meetings with them. This quibbling beseems not grave men in great matters.

To conclude, Reader, God having allowed more Legislative Power to men in things Secular than in Religion, I may say this case is like ours in debate.

I. Some Judges and Lawyers say, that the Oath of Allegiance makes a Subject in this Kingdom; that the Renouncing or Violating it by Treason, or Rebellion, or deserting the Kingdom, overthrows the Relation. But that other particular faults or quarrels against Neighbours, Justices, Judges, yea the King himself, are punishable according to the Laws, but are not all Rebellion, nor dissolve Subjection, nor oblige the Subjects to renounce civil converse with each other; though some contempt and obstinacy may outlaw them. Such is our Judgment of Church Relation and Communion, which I need not rehearse.