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 ...…

Ans. You make this Catholic Unity essential to the Church: And yet doth it lie in Humane Canons and Associations? Did Christ leave things so essential to Humane Invention? And is concord in your Canons necessary to salvation? And yet the proof of all this, is but this, and such Doctors Assertion, that [it's highly reasonable]. And so Unity and Salvation must lie on all that such will think highly reasonable.

Ans. You make this Catholick Unity essential to the Church: And yet doth it lie in Humane Canons and Ass•ciations? Did Christ leave things so essential to Humane Invention? And is concord in your Canons necessary to salvation? And yet the proof of all this, is but this, and such Doctors Assertion, that [it's highly reasonable]. And so Unity and Salvation must lie on all that such will think highly reasonable.

2. If Subjects may thus make their own Laws, no doubt they will make them suitable to their Natures and Inclinations (And it's confessed, that oft the most, even of Bishops, are bad and worldly men), and suitable to their Ends and Interests: How many would be glad if Sovereigns would thus let Subjects make their own Laws?

2. If Subjects may thus make their own Laws, no doubt they will make them suitable to their Natures and Inclinations (And it's confest, that oft the most, even of Bishops, are bad and worldly men), and suitable to their Ends and Interests: How many would be glad if Soveraigns would thus let Subjects make their own Laws?

3. But how were the Canons, or Laws of a National Church to be a Rule to all the Church on Earth, and necessary to its Unity?