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 ...…

But this seemeth to imply, that we are agreed of the constitutive Causes of the One Catholic Church; and our disagreement were of the Efficient. If that be it, I'll tell you what maketh the Church One efficiently: 1. God maketh Man to be Man, and so capable matter. 2. God gave Christ to be the Mediator and Head. 3. God made (by Christ) ⟨p. 12⟩the Covenant of Grace, by which, as by a Law and Gift, he determineth of the Conditions of Church-Relation and Benefits, and commandeth Man's belief and consent, and professeth his own acceptance of such consenters. 4. His Ministers and Word persuade Men to believe and consent. 5. His Spirit efficiently causeth Men to believe and consent. 6. At that time God's conditional grant becometh actual, and giveth them actually a right and relation to Christ and his Benefits. 7. Thereupon Christ's Ministers solemnize this Covenant, declaring God's acceptance; and by Baptism, investing the person in the visible possession of his relation to Christ and all his Members, the person professing his believing, which maketh it a mutual Covenant (the Parent doing it for Infants).

But this seemeth to imply, that we are agreed of the constitutive Causes of the One Catholick Church; and our disagreement were of the Efficient. If that be it, I'le tell you what maketh the Church One efficiently: 1. God maketh Man to be Man, and so capable matter. 2. God gave Christ to be the Mediator and Head. 3. God made (by Christ) ⟨p. 12⟩the Covenant of Grace, by which, as by a Law and Gift, he determineth of the Conditions of Church-Relation and Benefits, and commandeth Man's belief and consent, and professeth his own acceptance of such consenters. 4. His Ministers and Word perswade Men to believe and consent. 5. His Spirit efficiently causeth Men to believe and consent. 6. At that time God's conditional grant becometh actual, and giveth them actually a right and relation to Christ and his Benefits. 7. Thereupon Christ's Ministers solemnize this Covenant, declaring God's acceptance; and by Baptism, investing the person in the visible possession of his relation to Christ and all his Members, the person professing his believing, which maketh it a mutual Covenant (the Parent doing it for Infants).