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 ...…

Either the controversie is De re or de nomine (for we called Separatists use to separate these.) 1. If de re; Let the existence of the thing defined be tried by Scripture, Reason and common Experience: 2. If de nomine; Forma quae dat esse dat Nomen: Here is the true specific form which is found in many single Churches, ergo the Name of such single (or individual) Churches is due to them.

Either the controversie is De re or de nomine (for we called Separatists use to separate these.) 1. If de re; Let the existence of the thing defined be tryed by Scripture, Reason and common Experience: 2. If de nomine; Forma quae dat esse dat Nomen: Here is the true specifick form which is found in many single Churches, ergo the Name of such single (or individual) Churches is due to them.

4. Again ad hominem, from the consequences: 1. If there be not many single Churches in the Universal, then there are not many Patriarchal, National, Provincial, Metropolitical, Diocesan, or Parochial Churches: For non entium non datur numerus: Many nothings is a contradiction. Multae sunt ergo sunt; Abest tertij adjecti ad est secundi valet argumentum.

But if there be not many, then 1. All the Parish Churches in England being but one, and not many, a Patron can have right to present to no one as a Church, more than to another. 2. Then the Parson, Vicar or Curate is no more the Parson of one Church than of another; nor bound to no more Care and Duty; for there is but one. 3. Then no one is bound to go to one Parish Church more than another; for there is but one. 4. Then the Temple and Tithes belong no more to one than another. 5. Then no Bishop is the proper Bishop of one Diocesan Church, more than of another. 6. Then all the revenues of the Bishop of London, are no more appropriate to one Church than to another. 7. Then you owe no more Obedience to the Bishops of one Diocesan Church than another: 8. Then you make the King no more Head or Governor of the Church of England, than of another. 9. Then a Diocesan oweth no Reverence to a Metropolitan Church (if there be none such.) 10. Then many Churches cannot have Communion nor send Bishops to Councils; (if there be not many.) 11. And the charge of Separation from a Church that is no Church, is a contradiction.