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 ...…

1. No Kingdom is so wholly Christian as not to have many (alas, how many!) uncapable of Church-Communion. 2. Yet it is a matter of order to be endeavoured, that the Country be divided into Parishes; and that they have an Ecclesiastic as well as a Civil Relation: That is, That each of these Parishes have a stated Teacher (or many) for the Catechumens, who are uncapable of Communion: And that the same Men be the Pastors of all in that Parish who consent; and have the Temples and Tithes by the Magistrates Countenance and Consent: And this great advantage of Public Countenance and Maintenance, will no doubt prevail with the main Body of Christians in that Parish, if the men be desirable or tolerable, to choose them rather than others, to avoid discountenance, ⟨p. 4⟩and the maintaining of others: As all in the Hospital will be for the established Physician, who dare trust him with their Lives.

1. No Kingdom is so wholly Christian as not to have many (alas, how many!) uncapable of Church-Communion. 2. Yet it is a matter of order to be endeavoured, that the Country be divided into Parishes; and that they have an Ecclesiastick as well as a Civil Relation: That is, That each of these Parishes have a stated Teacher (or many) for the Catechumens, who are uncapable of Communion: And that the same Men be the Pastors of all in that Parish who consent; and have the Temples and Tythes by the Magistrates Countenance and Consent: And this great advantage of Publick Countenance and Maintenance, will no doubt prevail with the main Body of Christians in that Parish, if the men be desirable or tollerable, to chuse them rather than others, to avoid discountenance, ⟨p. 4⟩and the maintaining of others: As all in the Hospital will be for the established Physician, who dare trust him with their Lives.

But if this should be carried further, to bind all persons to an absolute acceptance of such Parish Priests to be their only Pastors (under the Bishops) who are put upon them, the mischiefs would be intolerable.