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 ...…

4. His words of [silly Sheep bleating after any Shepherd, &c.] are but a Net to catch silly Souls. It's the common Trap of the Papists, to put ignorant people to prove the Calling of the Ministers, or forsake them. They that preach the Gospel, and do the Office (tho faultily), and are in possession, have a Calling sufficient to justify the Hearers, when it may not be enough to ⟨p. 10⟩justify themselves: A better Call than the High Priests that Christ did send men to.

4. His words of [silly Sheep bleating after any Shepherd, &c.] are but a Net to catch silly Souls. It's the common Trap of the Papists, to put ignorant people to prove the Calling of the Ministers, or forsake them. They that preach the Gospel, and do the Office (tho faultily), and are in possession, have a Calling sufficient to justifie the Hearers, when it may not be enough to ⟨p. 10⟩justifie themselves: A better Call than the High Priests that Christ did send men to.

5. As to the Argument of Scandal; It is of dreadful weight to deter a tender Conscience (as from conforming to sin, so) from his groundless Separation, and war against Unity and Love.

6. That God saith such Means shall not profit; yea, curseth it, is a slander against God and Scripture, and all the Church on Earth that's known; by perverting and misapplying the Text.