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 ...…

The rest of my Reasons, you may gather from the fore recited Reasons of my Practice. § 12. I confess, that ad homin•m, the Canons Excommunicating us, may stop the mouths of the severe Canonists, if they accuse us: Would they not have us take their Canons to signify their will, concerning the extent of their Church-Communion? Or, would they have Excommunicate persons come to Church? All that do but own Non-conformity by a word, are ipso facto Excommunicate, till they publicly repent of it as a wicked Error. And their Writers Damn those as Schismatics, that obey them not: And so consequentially all that they call Indifferent, and Impose, are made necessary by some men to Salvation. I ha•e this at my heart: But yet it is not all the Parish-Ministers that like these Excommunicating Canons. And they are not bound to reject me till the Fact be proved; and I am not bound to do Execution on my self; but I am bound to all Offices for Love and Concord.

The rest of my Reasons, you may gather from the fore recited Reasons of my Practice. § 12. I confess, that ad homin•m, the Canons Excommunicating us, may stop the mouths of the severe Canonists, if they accuse us: Would they not have us take their Canons to signifie their will, concerning the extent of their Church-Communion? Or, would they have Excommunicate persons come to Church? All that do but own Non-conformity by a word, are ipso facto Excommunicate, till they publickly repent of it as a wicked Error. And their Writers Damn those as Schismaticks, that obey them not: And so consequentially all that they call Indifferent, and Impose, are made necessary by some men to Salvation. I ha•e this at my heart: But yet it is not all the Parish-Ministers that like these Excommunicating Canons. And they are not bound to reject me till the Fact be proved; and I am not bound to do Execution on my self; but I am bound to all Offices for Love and Concord.

I doubt not but some of the Excommunicating Clergy, will set these two Writings against each other, and say, as their Tutor and Advocate doth, that R. is against B. and that I am hardly reconcilable with my self; but if goggle Eyes judge each line to be a yard distant from another, I cannot cure them, but I can bear their Disease and the effects