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 ...…

§. 52. P. 2•5. I Argued, That if a Regent Supreme be the informing part of a Diocesan, Metropolical, &c. Church, so must it he of the Catholic, if the word Church, be used univocally. Hence he inferreth that I thus argue [If there be not a Supreme Head over the whole Church, there is no such over any part]: So little doth he understand an Argument. When as I argued only from the parity of Reason, That if the summa potestas be not the Form of the Catholic Church, then it is not of Diocesan Churches: But it is of Diocesan Churches, as is confessed; Ergo, This supposeth that they confess Christ to be the summa potestas. Therefore I say, He must be the Constitutive Form. The man blushed not here to say, That I infer [A Bishop cannot govern his own Church, unless one Bishop or a College govern the whole]. How little Belief is due to such a Man?

§. 52. P. 2•5. I Argued, That if a Regent Supreme be the informing part of a Diocesan, Metropolical, &c. Church, so must it he of the Catholick, if the word Church, be used univocally. Hence he inferreth that I thus argue [If there be not a Supreme Head over the whole Church, there is no such over any part]: So little doth he understand an Argument. When as I argued only from the parity of Reason, That if the summa potestas be not the Form of the Catholick Church, then it is not of Diocesan Churches: But it is of Diocesan Churches, as is confest; Ergo, This supposeth that they confess Christ to be the summa potestas. Therefore I say, He must be the Constitutive Form. The man blusht not here to say, That I infer [A Bishop cannot govern his own Church, unless one Bishop or a Colledge govern the whole]. How little Belief is due to such a Man?

§. 53. P. 844. He saith, I think it as certain, That those Churches cannot be Members of the Catholic Church, whose Communion is unlawful.

§. 53. P. 844. He saith, I think it as certain, That those Churches cannot be Members of the Catholick Church, whose Communion is unlawful.