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 ...…

Indeed I believe with Beza, that they who translate [Greek or Hebrew] by mere participation, say too little: For it is not all participation which is the Communion which many Texts express; but such a participation as connoteth an Union in quibusdam: For Union absolute and simple, is uncapable of Communion, except with some other thing, having no parts.

Indeed I believe with Beza, that they who translate 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 by meer participation, say too little: For it is not all participation which is the Communion which many Texts express; but such a participation as connoteth an Union in quibusdam: For Union absolute and simple, is uncapable of Communion, except with some other thing, having no parts.

1 John 1.6, 7. we are said to have [Greek or Hebrew] with God and with Christ, (or one another). I find no Expositor that taketh this for mere Union: Some call it Partnership, some Society, some Friendship, others Communion; but all take it to include transient acts. Dr. Hammond ▪ goeth so far from this Doctor, that he will have [Greek or Hebrew] almost every where in the New Testament to signify Communication by transient acts: Yea, he goeth so far from his Friend Grotius, who placeth it in the exercise of Friendship, that he saith, [It is appliable to Friendship or Society, no otherwise than to knowledge, or anything else]. So he expoundeth Rom. 15.26. 2 Cor. 8.4. 2 Cor. 9.13. Phil. 1.5. Heb. 13.16. Phil. 6. and the Creed. Tho for my part, I doubt not but the [[Greek or Hebrew],