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 ...…

XIX. When great sufferings come upon men, partiality and prejudice usually yieldeth so much to necessity, as maketh them willing to take nothing for sin which is not sin; and then they will yield; and their change will turn to their reproach, as if it were merely in worldly temporizing: Therefore I will at first do what is lawful.

XIX. VVhen great sufferings come upon men, partiality and prejudice usually yieldeth so much to necessity, as maketh them willing to take nothing for sin which is not sin; and then they will yeild; and their change will turn to their reproach, as if it were meerly in worldly temporizing: Therefore I will at first do what is lawful.

XX. Tho I think the Covenant bindeth me to nothing but what God bound me to before▪ yet to that I think it doth, as a secondary bond, by my voluntary self obligation. And it binds me against Profaneness and Schism, and all that […] against […] Doctrine and Godliness. And I cannot see but it were some degree of […], yea, and furthering profaneness, if I took all the Parish-Communion for unlawful, and would have all England that have no Nonconformists, nor can have, to forsake the Parochial, and so all Church-worship.

XX. Tho I think the Covenant bindeth me to nothing but what God bound me to before▪ yet to that I think it doth, as a secondary bond, by my voluntary self obligation. And it binds me against Prophaness and Schism, and all that 〈…〉 against 〈…〉 D•ctrine and Godliness. And I cannot see but it were some degree of 〈…〉, yea, and furthering pr•phaness, if I took all the Parish-Communion for unlawful, and would have all England that have no Nonconformists, nor can have, to forsake the Parochial, and so all Church-worship.