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 ...…

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.

III. This Body hath integral parts of various degrees, differing in Knowledge, Orthodoxness, Piety, Peace, Power of Preaching, and Purity and order of Worship and Government. Some in it Preach Christ not sincerely, but in strife, and contention, to add affliction to sincere suffering Preachers: and some, as Diotrephes, receive not the Brethren, but cast them out of the Church, and forbid others to receive them, and judge or despise each other for things that God would have left free; and receive not those that Christ receiveth.

IV. All of them differ in multitudes of accidents. They are not bound to agree in the same Forms, Liturgies, or unnecessary Circumstances: Nor in humane additional Modes, called forms of Government in Accidents; as in Patriarchs, Metropolitans, extended Diocese's, &c. Nor are they bound to take account of the Ordinations, Presentation, Titles, and Rights of all the foreign Churches of other Kingdoms with whom they are to hold Communion; nor to be Triers or Judges between contending Parties, which is the true Pastor: (Though in the same Kingdom, and under the same Laws, order may require this oft times.) Possession and Profession may satisfy them.