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§ 30. P. 50. He proceeds, [He takes that for granted which I can never grant him, That the Churches which are divided from one another by separate and opposite Communions, may yet be all united to Christ; for Christ hath but one Body, one Spouse, one Flock, one Church; and if we be not Members of this one Church (as no Schismatics are), we are not united to Christ].

§ 30. P. 50. He proceeds, [He takes that for granted which I can never grant him, That the Churches which are divided from one another by separate and opposite Communions, may yet be all united to Christ; for Christ hath but one Body, one Spouse, one Flock, one Church; and if we be not Members of this one Church (as no Schism•ticks are), we are not united to Christ].

Ans. 1. The Lord have mercy then on this miserable Priest, and save him from his heinous Schism, that out of his own month he may not be condemned as no Member of Christ.

2. Reader, while the Piper, Harper, or Trumpeter, giveth no distinction in the sound, (1 Cor. 7.7, 8.) but thinks that crying [Communion, Communion] should charm men into the same Disease of Confusion and Schism, which he is sick of; If thou be awake, I invite thee still but to use thy Reason in these three distinctions 1. Between Subjection and Communion. 2. Between local Separation and mental. 3. Between mental Separation in and from mere circumstances, accidents, or integrals, and in and from essentials necessary to Christianity and Christian Communion; And then if thou canst not Answer this Doctor, and escape Schism, which he tempts thee to, without any further Confutation, I despair of curing thee.