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 ...…

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

And if any will make use of my detection of the mistakes of conscionable peaceable Christians in some matters of Communion, to have a pretence to revile and persecute them, I enter my Protestation before God against them; and warn them to remember, that while they condemn others for Infirmities of so small a degree as few men are free from, they raise up matter of terror to their own Consciences when awakened, who have so much more heinous Sin to answer for before a holy dreadful God: even those little […] of whose scandalizers and neglecters Christ spake so terribly, were none of them without some Sin; Though Paul and Barnabas differed to a parting, neither of them was silenced for it, nor called a Schismatic.

And if any will make use of my detection of the mistakes of conscionable peaceable Christians in some matters of Communion, to have a pretence to revile and persecute them, I enter my Protestation before God against them; and warn them to remember, that while they condemn others for Infirmities of so small a degree as few men are free from, they raise up matter of terror to their own Consciences when awakened, who have so much more heinous Sin to answer for before a holy dreadful God: even those little 〈…〉 of whose scandalizers and neglecters Christ spake so terribly, were none of them without some Sin; Though Paul and Barnabas differed to a parting, neither of them was silenced for it, nor called a Schismatick.

If all shall be ipso facto Excommunicated, who have far greater Sin than humbly and peaceably saying, There is something sinful in some part of the Liturgy, Ceremonies, Articles, Subscription, or in some that bear office in the Church as to Government; I am past all doubt that there will no one living, either Prelate, or Priest, Lord, or Peasant, be left to be a Member of their Church; and that by parity of reason, they have Excommunicated every