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 if it be objected, that the Names of the whole and parts are here divers; but a Church and a Church are the same Name. I Answer, at the same age one may learn that the same Name proveth not the sameness of the things Named; and that ex penuria nominum the Genus and Species, the Totum and Parts have oft equivocally the same Name, with the Addition of just Notes of distinction. Sometimes an Academy of many Schools is called Schola, and so are the single Schools therein: The City of London is a Society; and so are the Societies of Merchant-Tailors, Drapers, Mercers, &c. therein.

And if it be objected, that the Names of the whole and parts are here divers; but a Church and a Church are the same Name. I Answer, at the same age one may learn that the same Name proveth not the sameness of the things Named; and that ex penuria nominum the Genus and Species, the Totum and Parts have oft equivocally the same Name, with the Addition of just Notes of distinction. Sometimes an Academy of many Schools is called Schola, and so are the single Schools therein: The City of London is a Society; and so are the Societies of Merchant-Taylors, Drapers, Mercers, &c. therein.

§. 4. But these Churches must be members of one another, or they are Schismatics.

§. 4. But these Churches must be members of one another, or they are Schismaticks.

A. 1. How can that be, if they be all but one. 2. This is also above or below the ferula age. They are no members of one another, but all members of the whole: Yet how oft have we this with the sting of Schism (as Damning as Murder or Adultery) in the Tail of it. The hand is not a member or part of the Foot, or the Foot of the Hand, or the Liver a member of the Lungs, &c. but each one of the Man: If ever I were a Schoolmaster again, I would persuade my Boys, that A is not a member of B, nor B of C, &c. but each of the Alphabet; And that one leaf of their Book is not a member of another, but both of the Book; And if they were ripe for the University, I would persuade them that Exeter College is not a member of Corpus Christi, nor that of Lincoln, &c. but all of the University of Oxford. And I think that Bristol is not a member of Exeter or Gloucester, &c. but all of England; and that the Company of Stationers are not part of the Society of Merchants or Drapers, &c. but all of London.