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. None are of Christ's Church that separate from any thing Essential to it.

2. All Congregations are locally divided and separated from one another.

2. All Congregations are locally divided and separated frome one another.

3. All Churches and Persons that differ in a Translation, a Form, a Word, a Ceremony in their Communion, by opposite Opinions or Practises are so far mentally opposite in their Communion. E. g. They that were for observing Meals and Days, Rom. 14. and they that were not: Peter and Barnabas that separated from the Gentile Christians while the Jews were there, and Paul that reproved them for it: Yea, those that for small Mental difference separate locally: A Prelatist that scruples taking one Parish Priest, or Bishop for his Pastor, supposing him insufficient or a false Teacher, separateth by removing his dwelling to another Diocese, or Parish: These Schismatics have not yet dared to say, that this man separateth from Christ. The Convocation caused Godfrey Goodman to be imprisoned 1640: His Diocese and the next were Separate in their Separate Heads. Victor Excommunicated the Asian Churches. Here were opposite Churches and Communion; the Greeks and Romans, the Abassine, Syrian, Assyrian, Armenian, Georgian, &c. Churches censure and Separate from others in their Communions to this day; so do some Lutherans from other Protestants hold Communions opposite in point of Consubstantiation and Images. So do such as Mr. Dodwell, condemn all Communion ⟨p. 32⟩that hath not uninterrupted Episcopal Succession: You write against him, and Archbishop Bramhall: so far are your Communions opposite. Doctor Gunning in the time of Usurpation, was against the Parish-Communion then practised, and separated from it: Archbishop Usher, Bishop Browning, and multitudes of Episcopal men did not. Did all these separate from Christ.