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 ...…

§ 16. But tho this Doctor use it not, we use first to enquire whether the Controversie be de nomine, or de re: And 1. If I satisfy him what maketh the Church to be One, will he grant, that if we agree in that Union, we are in Catholic Communion? If he will, we shall soon be Friends, and no Schismatics, at least with any that knows what Unity is. If he will not, doth he not all this while abuse his Reader, when he so hotly damneth us for want of Catholic Communion, and tells us, that he meaneth Unity, and chargeth me with wilfulness or nonsense, if I think that he meaneth any transient act.

§ 16. But tho this Doctor use it not, we use first to enquire whether the Controversie be de nomine, or de re: And 1. If I satisfie him what maketh the Church to be One, will he grant, that if we agree in that Union, we are in Catholick Communion? If he will, we shall soon be Friends, and no Schismaticks, at least with any that knows what Unity is. If he will not, doth he not all this while abuse his Reader, when he so hotly damneth us for want of Catholick Communion, and tells us, that he meaneth Unity, and chargeth me with wilfulness or nonsense, if I think that he meaneth any transient act.

But 1. De nomine, I will once more tell him why I distinguish Unity and Communion, and think he should have done so too.

Words in Dispute are to be used in the sense that Men of the Profession which the Subject most belongs to, use them, unless otherwise explained. But Men that write of Logic, Metaphysics, Physics and Politics, ⟨p. 10⟩use to distinguish Unity from Communion so far, as that usually Communion pres•pposeth Unity, secundum quid, and ever includeth some transient Acts, when Unity is but the denomination of Eus qua Uum.