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 ...…

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.

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 Heretick (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, Chrisme or anointing the Forehead, Crossing; they adored onely 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.

12. He maketh all, or near all the Churches on Earth, Idolaters, at this day: All on Earth, save the Protestants, are far grosser in their Liturgies and Ceremonies than the English: Of the […] ▪ Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and all the Lutherans, have Liturgies, Crossing, Ceremonies, Church-Images, Consubstantiation. The ⟨p. 16⟩Helvetians are such as are called Erastians, making the Magistrate the only Ruler, and Sacraments common. Geneva, and France, yea, and Holland, have their Liturgies, and some Rites.

12. He maketh all, or near all the Churches on Earth, Idolaters, at this day: All on Earth, save the Protestants, are far grosser in their Liturgies and Ceremonies than the English: Of the Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, and all the Lutherans, have Liturgie, Crossing, Ceremonies, Church-Images, Consubstantiation. The