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 ...…

These Seven Acts go to make up the total efficient Cause of the Churches Essence and Unity, and each Members Union therein. And if you exclude any one of them, you will be a false Teacher. Is there any room here for a Controversy among Christians? The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the Covenant and Law, the Consenter, the Minister and Baptism, all make up the efficient Cause of the Churches Essence. And that which maketh it a Church, maketh it One Church: As that which maketh it an House, a Ship, a Family, a School, a Kingdom, maketh it thereby One House, One Ship, One Family, &c. for eus & unun convertuntur.

These Seven Acts go to make up the total efficient Cause of the Churches Essence and Unity, and each Members Union therein. And if you exclude any one of them, you will be a false Teacher. Is there any room here for a Controversie among Christians? The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the Covenant and Law, the Consenter, the Minister and Baptism, all make up the efficient Cause of the Churches Essence. And that which maketh it a Church, maketh it One Church: As that which maketh it an House, a Ship, a Family, a School, a Kingdom, maketh it thereby One House, One Ship, One Family, &c. for eus & unun convertuntur.

§ 17. But tho his Question [How] (that ambiguous Syllable), enquire not of the Churches Essence (and of what, who knows?) yet p. 43. he ventures to enquire of it, upon my words, [it is only essential to the Church, that there be an organized Body of Pastors and People united to Christ, the Head], saith he, [Here I agree with Mr. B. if he would add One Body; for that is the thing in dispute, Whether Christ have one or a thousand bodies].

Ans. I pray you remember this happy agreement, that we agree of the Churches Essence. But is not [A Body] the Singular Number? If I say, that a man is corpus organicum, and a rational soul united, do I need to put in [One Body, or One Soul], while unum is entis inseparabilis affectio? Good Doctor, why must not Verum and Bonum be named with every eus in a definition, as well as Unum? Can it be a Body, and not One Body? O! what a Jest will School-boys make of us for such disputing?