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 ...…

§ 46. P. 192. He saith, [The Association and Confederacy of Neighbour-Churches is founded on the Law of Catholic Communion, and the Catholic Communion cannot be maintained without it.

§ 46. P. 192. He saith, [The Association and Confederacy of Neighbour-Churches is founded on the Law of Catholick Communion, and the Catholick Communion cannot be maintained without it.

Ans. Not without Baptismal Confederacy in the necessary Duties commanded by Christ: But as to your Confederacies in Humane new Church-Forms, Patriarchal, Metropolitan, &c. was not the Church One without them, before they were invented? Here he maketh voluntary Confederacies to make new Church-Canons, or Laws of Discipline, necessary to Unity, and that Unity necessary to Salvation, all being cut off from Christ that break it: As if Christ had not made Laws enough necessary to salvation, and he that only kept his Laws, and not mens Canons, could not be saved. Can he tell us then where to fix our Religion? On what Bishops, and on what Canons? I am certain that his Religion will not stand with certainty of salvation, when no man can be certain what is necessary to salvation, nor what de novo will by Bishops be made necessary the next year, nor who those Bishops must be.

Ans. Not without Baptismal Confedera•y in the necessary Duties commanded by Christ: But as to your Confederacies in Humane new Church-Forms, Patriarchal, Metropolitan, &c. was not the Church One without them, before they were invented? Here he maketh voluntary Confederacies to make new Church-Canons, or Laws of Discipline, necessary to Unity, and that Unity necessary to Salvation, all being cut off from Christ that break it: As if Christ had not made Laws enough necessary to salvation, and he that only kept his Laws, and not mens Canons, could not be saved. Can he tell us then where to fix our Religion? On what Bishops, and on what Canons? I am certain that his Religion will not stand with certainty of salvation, when no man can be certain what is necessary to salvation, nor what de novo will by Bishops be made necessary the next year, nor who those Bishops must be.