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 ...…

10. But Christianity being necessary to our Salvation; and it being the Christian Magistrates Duty to do his best for the Salvation of all his Subjects, and Knowledge being the means of Consent, and Teaching and Learning the means of Knowledge; it is the Duty of such Magistrates to provide sufficient Teachers for Number and Quality for all the Subjects; and to compel men to Hear, Con•er, and Learn, as Catechumens: ⟨p. 3⟩The ancient Churches had their previous Instructions for such, who were yet dismissed before the Communion Exercises, proper to the faithful.

10. But Christianity being necessary to our Salvation; and it being the Christian Magistrates Duty to do his best for the Salvation of all his Subjects, and Knowledge being the means of Consent, and Teaching and Learning the means of Knowledge; it is the Duty of such Magistrates to provide suffic•ent Teachers for Number and Qual•ty for all the Subjects; and to compel men to Hear, Con•er, and Learn, as Catechumens: ⟨p. 3⟩The ancient Churches had their previous Instructions for such, who were yet dismissed before the Communion Exercises, proper to the faithful.

§ 3. II. To the second case I Answer; 1. There is nothing in this World that Man can do without all inconveniences, or which may not be turned to some occasion of Evil. On one side, 1. It is most desirable that all Kingdoms were wholly Christians, and the Princes be Defenders and Promoters of Religion, and the Church and Kingdom be materially the same; and the Civil Government used Holily, according to God's Laws, to holy ends. 2. And it is desirable accordingly, that the Kingdom being all Christian, be divided into fit parts for Christian Conversation and Communion, such as our Parishes are, and that all be of the Church who are of the Parish, and the Civil State sanctified, and the Ecclesiastic, grow up as Body and Soul into one. And that all in the Parish be of one mind, and of one Church; and that there be no just cause given for any to separate from the rest; nor any do it without cause. 3. And it is desirable that all these Parish-Churches in a Kingdom living under one civil Government, do by the means of Senior Pastors and Synods, hold such Correspondence as is necessary to their common Concord and Strength.