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 ...…

But if this man's words be true, and Priests can so easily damn men, it's time to think what those men do that have made such damning Canons as ours before-mentioned; and that damn all that differ, and obey them not in every word and ceremony which they will command on those damning terms: And (were this true) whether it were not wisdom for all men to pack up, and leave the Land to the Priests themselves, and those that are ductile and sequacious enough to follow them to the last?

For my part, I believe not, that he that goeth from one Church to another, as separating from a pair of Organs, or Cathedral singing, or Copes, or from a sorry Priest for a better, or from an undisciplined Church, to one that useth true Discipline; not judging the Church that he goeth from, worse than it is doth any thing inconsistent with his Christianity, nor is separated from Christ: What the seed of Cain do, that hate and persecute their brethren; and whether they separate from Christ when they fight against Love, I leave to others.

• 31. Page 64, 65. But the man, hard put to it, hath a new notable subterfuge: He that hath said all this for One Church, hath found Two Universal Visible Churches in the World, besides the Invisible: [One consists of all those Christians and Churches who profess the true Faith of Christ, observe his Laws and Institutions, and live in Communion and Fellowship with each other]: This he owns.

• 31. Page 64, 65. But the man, hard put to it, hath a new notable subterfuge: He that hath said all this for One Church, hath found Two Universal Visible Churches in the World, besides the Invisible: [One c•nsists of all those Christians and Churches who profess the true Faith of Christ, observe his Laws and Institutions, and live in Communion and Fellowship with each other]: This he owns.