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 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?

4. And how comes this man that made it damnable in the Independents to make a Church-Covenant, as if they renounced Baptism, now to make Church-Associations and Confederacies to be so necessary to Catholic Unity? Truly I know no answer for the man, but the same that Binnius giveth us, when Pope John and Hormisda gave a contrary determination, de fide, on the question, Whether it may be said, that One of the Trinity was crucified? One said, Yea; But the N•storians taking hold of it, the other said, Nay: Ita mutatis hostibus, saith B••nius, arma necessario mutanda sunt: That's true when it's for themselves, which is false when it's for others.

4. And how comes this man that made it damnable in the Independents to make a Church-Covenant, as if they renounced Baptism, now to make Church-Associations and Confederacies to be so necessary to Catholick Unity? Truly I know no answer for the man, but the same that Binnius giveth us, when Pope Iohn and Hormisda gave a contrary determination, de fide, on the question, Whether it may be said, that One of the Trinity was crucified? One said, Yea; But the N•storians taking hold of it, the other said, Nay: Ita mutatis hostibus, saith B••nius, arma necessario mutanda sunt: That's true when it's for themselves, which is false when it's for others.

5. But it was modestly done to confine these Confederacies to the greatest distance that the thing is practicable with ease and convenience: And so he fairly denieth General Councils (and after more plainly). But when the Armenians, Syrians, Abassines, Greeks, &c. cannot with ease and convenience, go above Five or Six Hundred miles (at most); and so each Country hath different Customs, Laws and Canons: Can the Catholic Church obey them all?