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 ...…

VIII. The Relation that all Pastors have to the Universal Church, will enable any of them, more or fewer, confederate or not, ex authoritate Ministri & Nuncii, to tell any other Bishops or Churches of heinous scandalous sin, and admonish them, and renounce Communion with the impenitent, and exhort people to forsake Heretic Bishops, &c. But all this as Equals, and not as the fixed Overseers of other Churches, nor as Rulers of other Pastors: And so one Martin may do by a Synod of Bishops.

VIII. The Relation that all Pastors have to the Universal Church, will enable any of them, more or fewer, confederate or not, ex authoritate Ministri & Nuncii, to tell any other Bishops or Churches of heinous scandalous sin, and admonish them, and renounce Communion with the impenitent, and exhort people to forsake Heretick Bishops, &c. But all this as Equals, and not as the fixed Overseers of other Churches, nor as Rulers of other Pastors: And so one Martin may do by a Synod of Bishops.

IX. Kings are as truly (and I think as much) obliged to do their work in Concord and Communion,¹ as Bishops; And Kingship is as truly One as Episcopacy: That is, 1. It is of the same species: 2. Under the same Universal King: 3. Governed by the same Universal Laws: 4. Bound to regard the Good of all the Church and World above that of their own Kingdoms: 5. And bound to contribute the utmost of their Wit, Interest and Power for the said common good of Church and World. And because all the Kings in Europe may do more to this common good of all, than Bishops without them can do, I may say, That they are bound hereto rather more than less than the Bishops: As a rich man is bound to liberality more than a poor man, and one that hath the Tutorage of Princes and Nobles Sons, or a Physician that hath an Hundred such Patients, is bound to more care, and more bound to care than another. And all Kingdoms are as truly parts of God's Kingdom over men, as all Churches are parts of the Universal Church.