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 ...…

Ans. But 1. Taking the Bishops for true authorised Pastors, and the Church for a true Church, are transient acts. Believing in Christ, and repenting of sin, are transient acts, quoad objectum, tho immanent quoad subjectum & effectum. Baptism, and Profession of Christianity, and of love and obedience to others, are transient, both quoad objectum & effectum. Coming to Church, communicating, obeying Bishops, and departing from Schismatics, are transient in both respects. You see, that by [Catholic Communion] the Doctor meaneth none of all these.

Ans. But 1. Taking the Bishops for true authorised Pastors, and the Church for a true Church, are transient acts. Believing in Christ, and repenting of sin, are transient acts, quoad objectum, tho immanent quoad subjectum & effectum. Baptism, and Profession of Christianity, and of love and obedience to others, are transient, both quoad objectum & effectum. Coming to Church, communicating, obeying Bishops, and departing from Schismaticks, are transient in both respects. You see, that by [Catholick Communion] the Doctor meaneth none of all these.

2. What meaneth he then [a fixed permanent state]? But 1. Which Predicament can you conjecture that word [state] is in? It's commonly applied to Relation, Quality▪ and Site and Place. These latter I am confident he meaneth not. If he mean Quality, it is Disposition or Habit sure: But those come by Acts; and he tells us not what he meaneth, nor is it probable that this is it. Relation is most likely to be that [fixed state] which is indeed the true form of a Church and a Church-Member (and, saith Durandus, is meant by Baptism's indelible Character).

2. What meaneth he then [a fixed permanent state]? But 1. Which Predicament can you conjecture that word [state] is in? It's commonly applied to Relation, Quality▪ and Scite and Place. These latter I am confident he meaneth not. If he mean Quality, it is Disp•siti•n or Habit sure: But those come by Acts; and he tells us not what he meaneth, nor is it probable that this is it. Relation is most likely to be that [fixed state] which is indeed the true form of a Church and a Church-Member (and, saith Durandus, is meant by Baptism's indelible Character).