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 ...…

10. He maketh the Primitive Churches Idolatrous, and the Scriptures to approve it. For they used such uninstituted things: yea, the Romans were guilty of differences in God's Service, and despising and judging each other for them; The Corinthians were Carnal in making Parties and Divisions, they defrauded each other, and went to Law before Heathens. They had Fornicators, Judaizing envious Slanderers of Paul, Heretical deniers of the Resurrection; such as eat in Idols Temples, or of their Sacrifices: Were drunk at, or before the Sacrament. The Galatians are yet sharplier charged: Almost all the Seven Churches Rom. 2. and 3. had Nicholaitans, or Jezebels Doctrine, which God hated: and no Christian is called to separate from the Communion of any one of all these; but commanded to amend, and live in Unity, without division.

10. He maketh the Primitive Churches Idolatrous, and the Scriptures to approve it. For they used such uninstituted things: yea, the Romans were guilty of differences in God's Service, and despising and judging each other for them; The Corinthians were Carnal in making Parties and Divisions, they defrauded each other, and went to Law before Heathens. They had Fornicators, Judaizing envious Slanderers of Paul, Heretical deniers of the Resurrection; such as eat in Idols Temples, or of their Sacrifices: Were drunk at, or before the Sacrament. The Galatians are yet sharplier charged: Almost all the Seven Churches Rom. 2. and 3. had Nicholaitans, or Iezabels Doctrine, which God hated: and no Christian is called to separate from the Communion of any one of all these; but commanded to amend, and live in Unity, without division.

11. He condemneth as Idolaters all the Churches on Earth, for Six Hundred, if not One Thousand Years after the Apostles; not One Church Christian, or Heretic (as far as any History tells us that I have found) did ever deny such things, as he calls False Worship, or Idolatry. They all went further than our Parish Churches do. At Baptism they used the White Garment, tasting Milk and Honey, Chrism or anointing the Forehead, Crossing; they adored only Standing, and not Kneeling, every Lords Day, all as significant Ceremonies: No one Church or Person is said to scruple these; I think they did not well: but God rejected not their Worship.