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 ...…

1. The Church is considered in its mere Essence. 2. Its Organized complete state, needful to its Edification. 3. In its gradual growth or perfection. 4. In its mutable accidents.

1. The Church is considered in its meer Essence. 2. Its Organized compleat state, needful to its Edification. 3. In its gradual growth or perfection. 4. In its mutable accidents.

I. Christ and Christians United, are all that is Essential to it as a Church.

II. Christ and Christians, Sub-Churches, or Societies of Pastors and Flocks, are all that is necessary to make it an Organized Church completed in the parts necessary to its Edification. These Pastors at first were extraordinary, Apostles, and Prophets, for the first settling of universal Laws, and order; And after Ordinary Pastors, to Teach and Guide the Flocks.

II. Christ and Christians, Sub-Churches, or Societies of Pastors and Flocks, are all that is necessary to make it an Organized Church compleated in the parts necessary to its Edification. These Pastors at first were extraordinary, Apostles, and Prophets, for the first settling of universal Laws, and order; And after Ordinary Pastors, to Teach and Guide the Flocks.