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 ...…

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 ⟨p. 29⟩person in the land; however the predominancy of their Wills and Interests above the Will of Christ, and the interest of the Church and Souls, may still bewitch them into a confidence, that those are the worst Men who most cross their carnal will and interest; and that the most ungodly are fitter for their Church Communion than they.