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 see to what a pass these men would bring us: As we must have New Rules and Laws of salvation, if we will be of their Church-state; so we must have New Politics, and New Dictionaries: The Church cannot be a species of a Politic Society without New Definitions of Polity. Next say, God's Laws are no Laws, unless you make a New Definition of Laws in genere; and Christians are no Men, without a New definition of a Man.

Ans. You see to what a pass these men would bring us: As we must have New Rules and Laws of salvation, if we will be of their Church-state; so we must have New Politicks, and New Dictionaries: The Church cannot be a species of a Politick Society without New Definitions of Polity. Next say, God's Laws are no Laws, unless you make a New Definition of Laws in genere; and Christians are no Men, without a New definition of a Man.

I will not pretend to teach this Doctor; but if he will go to School again, I may hope he may meet with a Tutor that will teach him these Things following:

I. That a mere Community is not a proper Body Politic, Civitas vel Respublica, but an ungoverned Society of Equals (in hoc), associated for common good: So are a company of men that venture all their Goods and Lives in one Ship, as Equals, agreeing on some means of common safety; or any combined Body without Government.

I. That a meer Community is not a proper Body Politick, Civitas vel Respublica, but an ungoverned Society of Equals (in hoc), associated for common good: So are a company of men that venture all their Goods and Lives in one Ship, as Equals, agreeing on some means of common safety; or any combined Body without Government.