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 ...…

And verily if all the World that will come to you, may claim equal Pastoral oversight from you, or any Bishop, your equality must be like his to the Beggars, that gave nothing to any, that he might serve them all alike.

§ 11. P. 38, 39, &c. he saith, [He can hardly be so charitable to me, as not to believe that I wilfully mistook him, it being impossible for any man of common sense who ever read him,—to mistake his Catholic Communion for some transient acts].

§ 11. P. 38, 39, &c. he saith, [He can hardly be so charitable to me, as not to believe that I wilfully mistook him, it being impossible for any man of common sense who ever read him,—to mistake his Catholick Communion for some transient acts].

Ans. Reader, it's hard terms that these Men hold us to. I was loath to judg him so void of common Sense, or use of Words, as to talk of Catholic Communion which was in no transient acts: But for the future, rather than forfeit common sense, or be wilful, I will believe him, that by Catholic Communion he meaneth Union, and that he meaneth neither Baptism, nor profession of Christianity, nor owning any Article of Faith, nor owning Bishops, nor any Church-order or Worship of God. But do not unsay all this again, and call us all to nought for believing you.

Ans. Reader, it's hard terms that these Men hold us to. I was loath to judg him so void of common Sense, or use of Words, as to talk of Catholick Communion which was in no transient acts: But for the future, rather than forfeit common sense, or be wilful, I will believe him, that by Catholick Communion he meaneth Union, and that he meaneth neither Baptism, nor profession of Christianity, nor owning any Article of Faith, nor owning Bishops, nor any Church-order or Worship of God. But do not unsay all this again, and call us all to nought for believing you.