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§ 3. Among all the Casuists, I found none abound with this sort of Logic, so much as the Resolver of three Cases about Church-Communion] which when I had read, I am so much against Separation, that I thought meet to join with the rest of the Casuists, who unite against Schism, so far as to dissuade Men from this Man's (and Mr. Dodwells) extraordinary Schismatical Doctrine.

§ 3. Among all the Casuists, I found none abound with this sort of Logick, so much as the Resolver of three Cases about Church-Communion] which when I had read, I am so much against Separation, that I thought meet to joyn with the rest of the Casuists, who unite against Schism, so far as to disswade Men from this Man's (and Mr. Dodwells) extraordnary Schismatical Doctrine.

§ 4. But when I had written a just Confutation of him, hearing by fame who he is, I thought it my duty before I published it, to see the Book which he wrote against Mr. Humphrey, and Me; because he may perhaps be there more intelligible; (for I had never before seen it, and would not seek it, because I would not tempt my self to a work which I have so little pleasure in, as is the confutation of such men). But when I had read it, I found the Author a great deal sounder in his opinions than in his words, and than he was represented to me to be: There is a great deal that's good and worthy the reading in his Book, when he doth but keep off from his Schismatical cause. He handsomely openeth some Doctrinals, and so fairly alloweth forbearance of others in Doctrinal differences, that were he as Catholic and equal in his opinion about Government, and that which he calleth Catholic Communion, he would be against Schism a Catholic indeed. He doth fairly disclaim even Archbishop Bramhall's concession to the Papists: And he handsomely confuteth Mr. Dodwell, and maintaineth the validity of Sacraments, and the duty of our Communion with the foreign Churches that have no Bishops, and justifieth the Church of England that hath still owned Communion with them: He hath proved the no necessity of continued Successive ordination by Bishops: He hath defended the Independency of Diocesan Churches in point of Government; and that one Church hath not proper Governing Power over another, but only an obligation to Communion, of which more anon.