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 ...…

Ans. No doubt of it: So I have done most good people whose mistakes I ever sought to cure (about Antinomianism, Baptism, and the rest). But I please those good people who think as I do.

2. Compare these Two sorts together: How vast a number do the contrary minded censure? They think all our late Parliaments to sin in their Communion, even these last which they most praise: Mr. Hunt challengeth their Accusers to name any Number of them all that conform not: I have not heard of Three (if of any One) that is liable to the charge of Recusancy, and hath not communicated in the Parish-Churches.

They accuse also all the Common-Council, since changed; and in a word, almost all the Christian World: And yet we can easily forgive them, and forbear them: And if they cannot bear with us, if we obey our Consciences, and give them the Reason of it; yea, if we had told them why we judg them to be ⟨p. 25⟩mistaken, and to sin, they will show so much partiality and self-esteem, and so much impatient tenderness of themselves, as will too much harden their Accusers.

They accuse also all the Common-Council, since changed; and in a word, almost all the Christian World: And yet we can easily forgive them, and forbear them: And if they cannot bear with us, if we obey our Consciences, and give them the Reason of it; yea, if we had told them why we judg them to be ⟨p. 25⟩mistaken, and to sin, they will shew so much partiality and self-esteem, and so much impatient tenderness of themselves, as will too much harden their Accusers.