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 ...…

3. But let us consider of his Reason, and enquire 1. Whether the Church have all things Common. 2. Whether the very Essence of it consist in this.

I. It is granted that the whole Essence of the Genus and Species is found in every individual of that Species, Natural or Politic; but did we ever hear, ⟨p. 7⟩till Mr. Cheny and this Doctor said it, that Politic Bodies differ not numero as well as Natural? The Kingdom of England and of France are two; the Church of Rome and Constantinople long strove which should be uppermost, but who ever said that they were not two?

I. It is granted that the whole Essence of the Genus and Species is found in every individual of that Species, Natural or Politick; but did we ever hear, ⟨p. 7⟩till Mr. Cheny and this Doctor said it, that Politick Bodies differ not numero as well as Natural? The Kingdom of England and of France are two; the Church of Rome and Constantinople long strove which should be uppermost, but who ever said that they were not two?

II. Have they all things common? Dissenters would have excepted Wives and Husbands, (th• the Canons called Apostolical do not;) Why should the Essence of a Church lie in this, and not the Essence of a City or Kingdom? Tories in Ireland would have all common; Merchants and Tradesmen, Knights, Lords and Princes here would not. But it's no Schism here also to distinguish simpliciter & secundum quid, Propriety and the use of Propriety: There is no Community without Propriety: Men have first a Propriety in themselves, their members, their food, the acquests of their Labours, their Wives and Children, and Goods. And they consent to Community to preserve this Propriety, because every man loveth himself: And yet they must use their Propriety, (even of Life) for common good, because all are better than one: But if they had no Propriety they could not so use it for the Common-wealth.