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. 1. Experience confuteth this: I think most who hear me, do think it lawful, and oft go thither. 2. I have oft told them publicly, That I desire none of them to hear me, who do not need my help: If they have room, and sufficient helps in the Parish-Churches, I had rather they would not take up, with us, the room which others should have who truly need our help. If nothing bring them to me, but an Opinion, that it's sin to join with the Common-Prayer, I will do my best to drive them from me. But if any cannot have room elsewhere, or cannot overcome the foresaid mistake (of the sin of hearing the Parish-Minister), ⟨p. 26⟩I will give them the best help I can: And if any live where public hearing is but lawful, and they truly need more suitable help, the bare lawfulness of hearing elsewhere, will never keep away those persons who feel their need of better, and the benefit, no more than it will make them forsake better Clothing, good Physic, or Estate, because a worse is sometime lawful.

Ans. 1. Experience confuteth this: I think most who hear me, do think it lawful, and oft go thither. 2. I have oft told them publickly, That I desire none of them to hear me, who do not need my help: If they have room, and sufficient helps in the Parish-Churches, I had rather they would not take up, with us, the room which others should have who truly need our help. If nothing bring them to me, but an Opinion, that it's sin to joyn with the Common-Prayer, I will do my best to drive them from me. But if any cannot have room elsewhere, or cannot overcome the foresaid mistake (of the sin of hearing the Parish-Mi•ister), ⟨p. 26⟩I will give them the best help I can: And if any live where publick hearing is but lawful, and they truly need more suitable help, the bare lawfulness of hearing elsewhere, will never keep away those persons who feel their need of better, and the benefit, no more than it will make them forsake better Cloathing, good Physick, or Estate, because a worse is sometime lawful.