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. 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.

§ 12. But he saith, [Upon a stricter examination he finds me blundered and confounded about the Notion of Unity—This Unity I term Union.

Ans. The Doctor will grow over-critical if he hold on, if he mean this as part of my blundering and confusion: But it is but Grammar that I am ignorant of: I confess my ignorance: I thought that [Unio] had Two significations; one active, for that act of uniting which maketh One of Two; and that also Twofold: 1. To unite efficiently: 2. To unite constitutively: And the other as signifying the same with Unity caused. And I thought that Unitas had ordinarily signified by a more abstract word, the same Oneness as Unio, in the latter sense; and sometimes abusively, active Union. But I am ready to learn better.