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 ...…

13. Therefore in this, if the Doctor mean not better than he speaks, but thinks indeed that the Spirit only is the Principle of the Souls immortality, I differ from him, but not with contempt, acknowledging that these things are weighty, and of difficulty: But I am loath to be less Orthodox than Heathens and Infidels, or than the vain conceited Rabbins, who as Buxtorfe and others tell us, do hold that good Israelites go to Heaven, and bad Israelites to Hell, and all others die like Beasts. Did he so hold of good and bad Christians, it were too gross (or of those that are called by the Gospel, and some believe and some refuse). The Papists most commonly hold, That unbaptized Infants are in some such neutral state, shut out of Heaven, but under no positive pain. But if the Doctor preach so of the Adult and all, tho he seem to abate of his severity to the Dissenters, he will do no service to the Church.

14. The Terms Redeeming, Restoration, and other such in Scripture, intimate, that Christ did restore Man to the state he fell from▪ adding more mercy to it: And therefore that his Soul was immortal, and he in via, and not in patria.

14. The Terms Reedeeming, Restauration, and other such in Scripture, intimate, that Christ did restore Man to the state he fell from▪ adding more mercy to it: And therefore that his Soul was immortal, and he in via, and not in patria.

And I believe not what he adds of man's being not obliged to deny Sensuality, were it not for Heaven: 1. He thinks Adam was made but for Earth: And yet God bound him Not to eat of that Fruit which his eye, appetite and fancy led him to desire. Doth he not here directly condemn God's Law, and justify Adam's Sin? 2. Were there no Heaven for us,