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 ...…

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.

1. 1The contrary dreadful Doctrine of Dr. Parker, for setting up an Universal Council of Princes to govern all the Kings on earth, is to be confuted elsewhere, as also his subjecting Christ to Kings, which implieth, that they may command, reward, and punish him.The contrary dreadful Doctrine of Dr. Parker, for setting up an Vniversal Council of Princes to govern all the Kings on earth, is to be confuted elsewhere, as also his subjecting Christ to Kings, which implieth, that they may command, reward, and punish him.

If Justices or Mayors will of themselves make a New Body Politic by Confederacy and Association, and say, We claim no Superiority, but an Authority, in order to Communion to make Laws of Government for the Kingdom, or many Counties, and should say, It is One Kingdom, as Unified by this Communion, and these Laws of ours, and not by their Relation to one King, I should doubt whether to call them Sots, or Rebels, or Traitors.