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 ...…

This is as if he said, We are agreed what maketh a Man, an House, a City, a Book, &c. but we agree not what maketh him One Man; and so of the rest: Nothing but that which maketh him a Man, and causeth the existing Essence: Matter and Form united constitutively: And efficiently, all that which causeth Matter, and its Disposition (which Aristotle calls Privation•, and Form, and their Union.

But, Reader, it's so hard to understand such a Speaker, that we must •ift every doubtful word, lest he come again and say we wilfully mistake him. Who knows but the Doctor hath a C•t•urnus in the word [but], and the question be, What maketh this the only Church? or that God hath no other but one? As if the question were, What made Adam at first the only man in the World? or the Israelites the only peculiar Nation? I answer, Nothing in Adam, nothing in Israel; and so nothing in the Church can be the cause of Nothing: No Man, no Nation, no Church speak Nothing: Not to make another, is nothing; but the words are a mere Negation: And Nothing hath no Cause. What is the Cause that there is not another Sun? Why, Nothing hath no Cause: But if we must give any other Answer, it must be only by calling the Negation of a Cause by the Name of a Cause, and saying, that the Cause why there is but one Sun (that we know of), and one Church Universal, is because God made no more.

But, Reader, it's so hard to understand such a Speaker, that we must •ift every doubtful word, lest he come again and say we wilfully mistake him. Who knows but the Doctor hath a C•t•urnus in the word [but], and the question be, What maketh this the only Church? or that God hath no other but one? As if the question were, What made Adam at first the only man in the World? or the Israelites the only peculiar Nation? I answer, Nothing in Adam, nothing in Israel; and so nothing in the Church can be the cause of Nothing: No Man, no Nation, no Church speak Nothing: Not to make another, is nothing; but the words are a meer Negation: And Nothing hath no Cause. What is the Cause that there is not another Sun? Why, Nothing hath no Cause: But if we must give any other Answer, it must be only by calling the Negation of a Cause by the Name of a Cause, and saying, that the Cause why there is but one Sun (that we know of), and one Church Universal, is because God made no more.