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 ...…

4. But out of this his Doctrine, I gather, That if all the Christian World have rig•• to communicate with me upon occasion, 1. Sure there is some difference between occasional and fixed Local Communion. 2. And surely if I refuse any that would communicate on common necessary ⟨p. 7⟩terms, because they will not break the Custom of their several Countries, and communicate with me in doubted unnecessary things, I wrong all the Christian World, and am to them a Schismatic: Much more if I presume to Excommunicate every Stranger that cometh into my Precincts, and herein differs from me, as you do us: and most of all if I impose many sinful terms of Communion on him.

4. But out of this his Doctrine, I gather, That if all the Christian World have rig•• to communicate with me upon occasion, 1. Sure there is some difference between occasional and fixed Local Communion. 2. And surely if I refuse any that would communicate on common necessary ⟨p. 7⟩terms, because they will not break the Custom of their several Countries, and communicate with me in doubted unnecessary things, I wrong all the Christian World, and am to them a Schismatick: Much more if I presume to Excommunicate every Stranger that cometh into my Precincts, and herein differs from me, as you do us: and most of all if I impose many sinful terms of Communion on him.

All Christians are bound to hold Communion in Christianity, and in all things necessary to the common Communion of them all; and to extend this also to as many Integrals as they can reach: But there are Multitudes of things in which they are not bound to have Communion; much less as necessary to salvation.