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 if this be his sense, What independent (whom he so much damneth) doth not acknowledge a dependence in Community, on all true Christians (and in Polity on Christ)? Doth not every Christian confess, that all true Churches and Christians depend on the Whole, as Parts, and on each other, as Fellow-Members, obliged to live on the same Christ, in the same Love and Communion in Essentials, and in as many Integrals of Religion as they can reach to? I never met with the Christian that denied this: Therefore what to make of this man's words, I know not.

3. But if this be his sence, What independent (whom he so much damneth) doth not acknowledg a dependance in Community, on all true Christians (and in Polity on Christ)? Doth not every Christian confess, that all true Churches and Christians depend on the Whole, as Parts, and on each other, as Fellow-Members, obliged to live on the same Christ, in the same Love and Communion in Essentials, and in as many Integrals of Religion as they can reach to? I never met with the Christian that denied this: Therefore what to make of this man's words, I know not.

§ 38. P. 126. he saith, [He who causelessly breaketh this Unity, can be no Catholic Bishop].

§ 38. P. 126. he saith, [He who causelesly breaketh this Unity, can be no Catholick Bishop].

Ans. Is it come to that? Alas! how few Catholic Bishops then do we hear of in the World? Tho no good man breaks it in the Essentials, who breaks it not in Degrees or Integrals. They were guilty of Schism that said, I am of Paul, and I of Apollo, and I of Cephas. Peter brake it in some degree, Gal. 2